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How do plastic bags choke animals?

Plastic bags can choke animals when they mistake them for food and ingest them, leading to blockages in their digestive systems. Animals may also get entangled in plastic bags, causing them to suffocate or suffer injuries that could be fatal.


What is the main cause killing marine animals plastic bags or shark nets?

Both plastic bags and shark nets pose threats to marine animals, but shark nets are specifically designed to catch and kill sharks, while plastic bags often entangle marine animals causing injury or death. Therefore, the main cause killing marine animals would depend on the specific context and location.


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.


Why are cloth bags better than plastic bags?

Scientists estimate that it takes upwards of 500 years for a plastic bag to decompose, filling up landfills at an alarming pace. Plastic bags are also dangerous to animals and sea creatures who accidentally ingest them.


What happen to the plastic bags or after people throw it away?

When people throw away plastic bags, they often end up in landfills where they can take hundreds of years to decompose. Some may also end up in the environment, harming wildlife and polluting ecosystems. Recycling plastic bags can help reduce their environmental impact.

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How does reducing plastic bags help Chinook Salmon?

Plastic bags are very light and can fly away into the ocean. When animals see them they think it is food so they eat them and when they build up animals canget caught in them


What animals are harmed from plastic bags?

all the animals in the world!


In what ways use of plastic bags effect animals?

Plastic bags Killed the following celebrity animals Flipper, Nemo, and yes even Willie the whale!


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 do plastic bags choke animals?

Plastic bags can choke animals when they mistake them for food and ingest them, leading to blockages in their digestive systems. Animals may also get entangled in plastic bags, causing them to suffocate or suffer injuries that could be fatal.


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 do other people say about banning plastic bags?

other people think that plastic bags are harmfull to the envirnment, in witch they are, they also think that they harm animals and marin animals, witch is also true this is what other people think about plastic bags (hoped this help) :D


How does poly bags if disposed pf carelessly cause problems to animals and drainage system?

If poly bags are recycled correctly they are 100% recyclable. If they are not disposed of properly animals can eat the plastic or become entangled in the plastic.


What can happen to birds and sea animals when humans pollute beaches with plastic trash?

They can get caught in the bags and other plastics and suffocate. They can also drown, and for birds cannot fly, making them very vulnerable.


What are the hazards of Plastic or Plastic bags?

the hazards of plastic are that they kill animals,and sufficate humans(those are the bad things i could think of.


What is the main cause killing marine animals plastic bags or shark nets?

Both plastic bags and shark nets pose threats to marine animals, but shark nets are specifically designed to catch and kill sharks, while plastic bags often entangle marine animals causing injury or death. Therefore, the main cause killing marine animals would depend on the specific context and location.


What affects the animals to die because of the plastic bags?

because therew got to poo