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ECO-TREND COTTON BAGS
It’s not about…
Bags
It’s not about…
Bags
It’s about…
Bags
But it starts with:
• The plastic bag begins its journey into production as crude oil and other various
secondary petrochemicals. They also share mutual ingredients with pesticides and bring
out harmful bi-products that are unsafe to living beings and this living planet’s living
environment
Not exactly the family heirloom you want to pass-down to your future generations
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The IMPACT of
the PLASTIC
BAG on the
Earth’s
ENVIRONMENT
Sea Land
Bags
the IMPACT on Land
Plastic bags contribute to high levels of land pollution Most plastic
bags end up in landfills when they are used to dispose our
Garbage.
Even when they end up in
landfills they do not degrade
easily. When they finally do
begin to degrade plastic
breaks down into toxic
particles that harm the soil
through contamination of the
nutrients within the soil that
in turn effects trees and other
plantations. These toxic
particles then further make
their way into the food chain
of both man and animal.
Bags
Land pollution caused by plastic
bags are hazardous to land
animals who mistake it for food
or suffocate from them
A bear does not know that a
plastic bag is harmful.
But there is ONE ANIMAL that should
know plastic bags pollute lands that cause
drains to be blocked, soil to be
contaminated, cause the deaths of animals
that Neither
ingest it by mistake
does a duck… or get entangled
in it and suffocate:
The HUMAN
Or an orangutan.
• When plastic bags float into drains, they block the control of
water flow out of cities which contribute to massive floods in
high density rural areas especially cities with rivers.
“Dead stranded sea turtles were recovered and examined to determine the impact
of anthropogenic debris and fishery activities on sea turtles on the coast of Rio
Grande do Sul State, Brazil. Esophagus/stomach contents of 38 juvenile green
Chelonia mydas, 10 adults and sub-adults loggerhead Caretta caretta, and two
leatherback Dermochelys coriacea turtles (adult or sub-adult) included plastic bags
as the main debris ingested, predominated by white and colorless pieces.”
2001, Upper South-West Atlantic, off Brazil
“..plastic bags accounted for a very high percentage (up to 95% or more) of total
debris.”
2003, Seine Bay
If you do not know the location of Seine Bay, it is of little importance, what is important is that
you realize it is some where on this planet, the same one you are on seated at your computer
reading this right now.
Some World action
Canada
Canada against Plastic Bags
Ireland
Ireland
Canada
Canada shows action
shows action Ireland
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of
bags. It hopes follow
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example.
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use use bags
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other US
reduction cities
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an by where numbers have
plastic bag consumption. depleted bagsIndia:
this
In Goa, as well
tax in turn
people – this
are tax utilized
would be in turn
decade.
follow in its
50% within
educational example.
the next
program Though there have Africa
and then increased Africa
Ireland
been is to generate
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generate
California has determined to keep it’s efforts and capital
newspapers for the
which pushes businesses
half decade. some step-backs where pollutionto deal
caused with
by pollution
plastic bags.
implemented an
in the direction of in Kenya
success. and Uganda are
Kenya and Uganda are productionbanning of paper bags
numbersbanning
have depleted
thin caused by plastic bags.
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and placing
to aid in the reduction
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which is determined South to keep
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actions towards
plastic bags. South consumption. Australia
Australia
businesses in the effortsthe in issue
success.of plastic towards
bag have
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Australia beganbegan its battle
its battle against
direction of fairly restricted the number of
the issue of plastic bag against plastic bags in 2006 by
plastic bags in 2006 in Victoria, in
promoting the bags found carelessly disposed
have fairly restricted
in the country. The African the asking consumers to pay
Victoria, by asking consumers for the
message of re-using
number
nation takingof bags found
the most strongly to plastic
pay for bags
thethey use. They
plastic bagsarethey
bags. hoping this step in Victoria will see
carelessly
voiced action disposed
is Tanzaniain the use. They are hoping this step
banning the
country. Theplastic bag
African the rest of Australia follow a path
in Victoria
towards reducingwillthe
seeconsumption
the rest ofof
nation taking
completely in 2006. the most Australia follow a path towards
plastic bags.
strongly voiced action is reducing the consumption of
Tanzania banning the plastic bags.
plastic bag completely in
2006.
What can ‘You’ or ‘Me’ do?
Lets start by answering that infamous question we are asked:
Some of us choose plastic thinking we can re-use and recycle
Others choose paper thinking they are definitely choosing the best option
But the reality of it is apparently:
plastic?
But Paper bags produce pollutants too
PAPER or
Paper bags though they do disintegrate sometimes too remain in landfills without degrading
So then choosing plastic is better right? Because you can re-use it again – well not really unless you plan on re-
using that same one plastic bag for everything you do with a plastic bag for the next 300-1000 years.
So if paper is not THE most suitable option and plastic is definitely a NO then what is a ‘yes’?
And you can use the cloth bag not ONCE, not TWICE but all year long. If not use biodegradable bags and store your
frozen items in containers and not plastic bags
Don’t wait till your community leads you!
Lead the community!
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get the Bigger Picture
“There’s a little ‘he’ wave who’s bobbing
up and down in the ocean off the
shore, having a great time. All of a
sudden, he realizes he’s going to crash
into the shore. In this big wide ocean,
If we are to live on
he’s now moving toward the shore,
and he’ll be annihilated. “My god,
what’s going to happen to me?” he
this planet we must
says a sour and despairing look on his
face. Along comes a female wave,
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