Why not to use Plastic bags

As everyone knows the humble plastic bag has become an integral part of our lives. In fact the plastic bag has become so common that we hardly notice their presence. Yet if you look around you will notice that we are all in a swamp of plastic bags! They are everywhere. We use them to pack clothes, shoes, pens, tools, video games and even fruits and vegetables. At the super market they are soft yet strong packing medium. They are light weight, high strength and very flexible and come at a low cost.
All of this might sound wonderful. But do you want to be a person who contributes to one of the latest and difficult of the environmental problems. The plastic bag is an agent of air pollution, cancer and skin disease. People who use these bags have made this an environmental menace which has made many of world's clean and glimmering metropolises a pile of garbage! Did you know they are a slow poison in our daily life? When you use plastic bag do you know how they are made? Many of the plastic bags at the super market are made through recycled plastic; this means the old plastic is burnt at high temperatures and melted down. For this process a large number of hazardous chemicals are used which makes them a severe health hazard. When you use a plastic bag you could be responsible for giving people who are close to you cancer, because when plastic bags and other plastic materials are burnt below 7,000 degrees they produce gasses which can lead to skin disease and some forms of cancer. Also when you bring your family products wrapped in polythene like fish, meat and vegetables they get can get infected by anaerobic bacteria, which is a germ responsible for skin cancer.
Before you go ahead and throw away a plastic bag consider these true facts. Plastic bags end up in landfill. The bags are made of polymers and they are non- bio degradable (this means they cannot be broken down by the earth). Polymers are the same substance that makes plastic bags a "performance material". Next time you go shopping and wonder why the prices of many fruits and vegetables have become more expensive consider this fact. The Plastic bags that are embedded in soil do not allow water to go into the earth. This becomes a huge problem for farmers and their crops. If their crops don't get enough water their crops will die and this is one of the factors that cause inflation in the cost of many fruits and vegetables. If you are one of the people who love to save the animals you would like this know that plastic bags are also a health hazard to animals, especially in large cities where animals meet their end after eating a plastic bag. Even in places like zoos where animals are meant to be protected, many zoo keepers have found their animals munching away on plastic material that visitors and people like you have thrown away.
Plastic bags that end up in our oceans and lakes have become a huge problem for the native wildlife. Many researchers have found the population size of animals such as the sea lion de crease because of them running into plastic bags and getting them wrapped around their neck. The majestic sea turtle, which has been around from many millions of years are having their life drastically cut short by the plastic bags. Don't be one of the people who are responsible for the extinction of the sea turtle! When plastic bags are thrown into the ocean the bag floats up on the surface and many turtles mistake them as jelly fish, which are a part of their diet, when a sea turtle eats a bag it ends of choking on it. If you're a bird lover you should know that even our flying friends are affected by the bag. Birds choke when they have plastic fragments lodged in their beaks.
All of this can be prevented by a simple solution. Next time you go to the super market look for an alterative to the plastic bag; this could either be a paper bag or a cloth bag. If you love your world and if you want to live in a cleaner environment DO NOT USE PLASTIC BAGS!