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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.

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