Global warming and plastic bags?

Question

do you agree to No on plastic bags because of Global Warming ? when we go to grocery store shoping at mall i cant imagine myself carring my own bag especially if im doing alot of shopping and lots of bags are required i dont agree no to plastic its not going to solve all the problems we have there are lots of causes for global warming.

Answer 1

Plastic is made of petroleum and we are soon to experience petrocollapse meaning there is going to be no more. We need to do a lot more too stop climate destruction but even if it takes getting rid of plastics as well as stopping driving to make a teeny tiny impact we should do it. We also need to look into doing things on a smaller scale and more locally and we are really going to need to learn how to hunt and gather for our food and live with nature in nature. Indigenous people all around the world were very much able to live with nature and hunt and gather sustainably and we are going to need to move more in that direction or face the grim music

Answer 2

Not just because of global warming, but also because these bags take forever to biodegrade and clog up landfills.

It's easy to bring your own bags.  They even make compact fold-up bags that are easy to carry with you.

http://www.reusablebags.com/store/shoppi...

And reusable bags can often hold a lot more than plastic bags.  I totally agree with banning plastic bags.  I haven't used a plastic grocery bag in probably a year now, and rarely use them in other stores.

Answer 3

It's not global warming, it's when you throw out the bags, they sit @ the land fill and do nothing.  

Anyway, you'd carry LESS, actually, if you brought bigger bags. Instead of a ton of little bags

Answer 4

the re-useable bags are not that expensive and lasts for ages, think about the future, would it really be that much of a sacrifice to ditch the plastic bags?

Billions of plastic bags are thrown away in Britain every year, most of which are used only once before disposal. In a survey2 in March 2005, 36% of those asked admitted to throwing away 'vest'-style plastic bags after one use. On average, people surveyed admitted to using roughly eight bags per week.

Plastic bags take up huge amounts of space in our country's landfill sites, space that could be used much more effectively. Many carrier bags end up as unsightly litter in trees, streets, parks and gardens which, besides being ugly, can kill birds, small mammals and other creatures. Bags that make it to the ocean may be eaten by sea turtles and marine mammals, who mistake them for jellyfish, with disastrous consequences, or may end up drifting into the 'Doldrums', an area of the world's oceans that have become the final resting place of much of the world's floating junk.

The production, decomposition and disposal by burning of plastic bags also releases greenhouse gases3 that contribute to global warming. Although the burning of fossil fuels has a much greater impact, the production and disposal of carrier bags plays a part in this terrible global phenomenon.

The plastic bags may be free to you, but at what cost to the environment?

Answer 5

The proposed laws tax the bags.  

It doesn't solve anything.

Just another money making scam inspired by environmentalism.

Answer 6

It helps the enviroment but not global warming here is how:

when you get a plastic bag it is not recycable right so it just sits in a landfill it could take 50 years to decompose whitch could harm animals nearby and realese fumes into the air the cloth bags are reuseable. Remember "Reduse, Reuse, Recycle!"

Billions of plastic bags are thrown away in the UK every year, most of which are used only once before disposal. In a survey2 in March 2005, 36% of those asked admitted to throwing away 'vest'-style plastic bags after one use. On average, people surveyed admitted to using roughly eight bags per week.

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Answer 7

wow, plastic bags don't contribute to global warming, they fill up the land fills with non-disintegratable plastic trash.  Yes, I agree to no plastic bags.  Simply bringing your own fabric bags to the grocery store is so easy, and it saves a ton of bags from going into land fills.  Or at least use paper bags because they eventually break down and go back into the earth.

Answer 8

I think that people who worry about the contribution plastic bags make to global warming are REALLY sweating the small stuff.

People who "recycle" their plastic bags, and then drive their overpackaged groceries home in their SUVs, are deluding themselves.

Compared to the cost of running even one military helicopter, or of flying even one politician from poll to poll, plastic bags are insignificant.

Answer 9

I use my bags for bin liners so I guess they have two uses. New bags are biodegrade able I believe as are builders merchants plastic bags. I retain builders bags to store up waste which i collect to dispose in a skip when I have enough. The irritating thing is they degrade after a few months so I have to buy more. I believe I try hard to recycle but these new ideas will increase my costs and my environmental footprint,

Answer 10

What global warming problem?

It's been snowing in Mont. Idaho, Utah, Wyoming and Col.

It's the middle of June!!