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What are some facts about plastic bags?
About 60 to 100 million barrels of oil are required every year for plastic bags. Plastic bags are killing over 100,000 sea turtles and other marine animals because animals are mistaken them for food. The plastic bags are horrible for our environment it causes pollution, which isn't good for humans or animals, well for anything!
How many animals does plastic kill a year?
1000 are dead because of plastic because of plastic 100o animals are dead (just estimating)
What is the problem with using plastic shopping bags?
Since plastic bags are not biodegradable, they slowly deteriorate into small toxic bits, contaminating water and soil. Plastic is made from chemicals that produce pollution as the plastic is manufactured. Using fewer plastic bags causes less pollution to enter the air humans and animals breathe. At times, plastic bags make their way to the ocean and marine animals eat them, thinking they are food. Some marine animals may even become entangled in the plastic bags .
What is the main cause killing marine animals plastic bags or shark nets?
shark nets kill more. Plastic bags can easily be ripped out of by most marine life but nets are designed to catch them.
How do humans affect marine life like sponges?
human kill marine life because we throw plastic bags into the water
What affects the animals to die because of the plastic bags?
because therew got to poo
How many seals die from plastic bags each year?
100,000 turtles and marine mammals, such as dolphins, whales and seals, are killed by plastic marine litter every year around the world.
What arguments are used by environmentalists to support a ban on plastic shopping bags?
Plastic bags are made from oil, which is a non-renewable resourceMany plastic bags end up in the oceans, where they threaten the lives of marine animals. Turtles and fish swallow the floating bags, mistaking them for jellyfish.Plastic shopping bags are designed to be used once, and then discarded. This is unsustainable.
Can dry land animals digest plastic?
No! There is nothing that can digest plastic. No animals of any kind, no birds, no fish, nothing. Plastic is one of the killers of birds and marine life, like turtles, which eat floating plastic bags because they look like jellyfish. Sea birds eat bits of plastic till their bellies are full, and then they die.
Which choice is stated in the research essay as a reason that plastic bags are a problem on beaches?
Plastic bags kill the marine creatures that eat them. -apex
Why should you band plastic bags?
it is because people are just dumping them and animals will eat anything and usually animals die because of this matter.
What animals are harmed from plastic bags?
all the animals in the world!
