WHY PLASTIC BAGS ARE EVIL

WATCH THE VIDEO AND ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS

1. Why are plastic bags evil?
2. What happens to a plastic bag after we use it?
3. How can we help save the world?

SCRIPT

Every time we go to the store, we have to make a choice : paper or plastic.  Americans choose plastic one hundred billion times a year and this is a problem because plastic bags are evil.

It takes oil to make those bags, something like 12 million gallons a year and getting all that oil sucks up some of our own natural resources and kind of ruins others.

What happens to a plastic bag after we use it? Well, even if you put them in the trash, plastic bags are good at floating away and they end up in our streams, where they slide down to our oceans , where they hang out with other trash in places like the North Pacific trash gyre, a space in the Pacific Ocean the size of Texas, that’s made up of more trash than anything else.Eventually, our plastic bags get sucked down to the bottom where animals either eat them or get stuck in them. Animals like fish, turtles, seals and even whales get killed by plastic bags every year. Jerk!

It would be nice if we could recycle these bags, but the truth is most recycling centres just take them to the dump so that they don’t get caught in the machinery and then ruin all the other recycles.

So, if plastic bags pillage the earth and choke cute furry animals, what about paper? Well, there are problems with that too. So how do you choose the lesser of two evils? Well, what if there is a third option? A great option that could do battle with evil and save the fish, and the turtles, and the seals and the whales, and the monkeys and the birds. Well, there is. The next time you go to the store, bring your own reusable bag and you can help save the world