Plastic bags can be bad for the environment for many reasons, which include:
* they are not biodegradable, Instead, they break up into smaller pieces of plastic until eventually becoming plastics dusts.
* people may lose them causing them to blow around (litter)
* they are dangerous to small children
* animals that ingest them may become sick and / or die
* making them contribute to the global emissions.
* can end up at sea through garbage dumps at seaside
* Plastic degradation at sea takes between 45-1000 years.
* they are RECYCLABLE but people need to take them and reuse them or donate them to thrift stores to be reused versus throwing them away
* it takes oil to produce them and it takes more oil to recycle them than it does to produce
* Burning plastic results in air pollution and toxic ash.
yes
Waste water from land, carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere, trash thrown overboard, abandoned fishing nets and equipment, plastic bags.
Land pollution can cause fires and other horrible things.
It can cause land pollution.
In order to prevent land pollution, we all need to unite and work together as it is that only one person cannot prevent it. The first and foremost thing which we need to change to save earth is our habit. Most of us have the habit of throwing plastic wrapers after having the toffee or something else inside it. Besides, things that destroy the environment should be banned and replaced by more eco-friendly materials. Such as plastic bags should be replaced with jute or paper bags,etc.
Us we cause land pollution by throwing around rubbish
one of the causes of land pollution is because of the cigarette butts that has been thrown on the grown.
Yes there is definitely pollution of air, water and land. In the capital city's streets of Port Moresby, there are plastic bags, packaging, bottles and any rubbish at all that is just casually thrown on the ground, which ends up in the ocean, most commonly at Ela Beach.
Yes, but if you ban the paper bags then only the plastic bags will be used and they will fill up the land fills. At least paper is biodegradable.
factory,oil,fuel
Land pollution normally becomes a hazard or endangers the life of animals that live in the given area. Land pollution may also cause a degradation of vegetation and natural habitats.
Heck No. In fact, chemicals make land pollution much, much worse and can cause many diseases.