Dr. Akbar

Environmental damage:

Plastic bags are known to cause a lot of ecological disasters as they can take up to 100 years to decay effectively; this makes the bags stay longer in the environment. However, paper bags degrade at a faster rate.

To keep it simple in other words, higher use of plastic bags will damage the environment at an exponential rate.

The threat to animal life:

As per Marrickville Council of Australia, around 100,000 whales, turtles and birds die every year because of plastic in their environment. Plastic bags not only harm our natural habitats but are found to be responsible for the death of many animals because of suffocation and encountered on eating them.

Suffocation:

Not only animals, infants and children how also been reported to have lost their lives. The plastic bags are thin and airtight; children end up blocking their mouth and respiratory tract. Hence it is advisable to monitor young children's activity.

Pollution:

Plastic bags are durable. If you think of this as na advantage, recall the image of the enormous landfill that you visited on city outskirts. The majority of rubbish present there will comprise of plastic bags. Hence plastic bags have led to a significant increase in pollution.

Fumes

Plastics are not bio-degradable; the only way to discard them is to burn. Though lighting a match is easy, the biggest problem is that smouldering plastics can release toxic fumes into the environment; hence, the levels of air pollution are increasing.