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Each year, an estimated 500 billion to 1 trillion plastic bags are consumed worldwide. Plastic bags are globally classified as toxic wastes. What is toxic waste? Toxic waste can be defined as a poisons waste material that can cause injury especially by chemical means (vocabulary, 2015). There are many types of toxic waste in the world, some of them can be recycled such as plastics, chemical like oil waste. The Swedish engineer Sten Gustaf Thulin invented the plastic bag in the 1960s. But it started to be more popular in 1980s. There are two type of plastic bag, the first called “Low Density Polyethylene” (LDPE) which means it is very flexible and natural milky color, the second type is “High Density Polyethylene” (HDPE), which means it is flexible

Plastics bags are usually made from polyethylene and there are two types of polyethylene. Plastics bags are usually made from polyethylene C2H4, which is a harmful chemical. It can badly affect the environment, animals, and the human beings because of the dangerous chemicals that are made from. Moreover, polyethylene is hardly to recycle it because it needs years to be decomposed. Every one in the world use a plastic bag one day, but no one was thinking were these plastic bags might land? Each year, an estimated 500 billion to 1 trillion plastic bags are consumed worldwide. People use them every day for one time and throw them in the garbage. In fact, after throwing them they will stay on the earth around 1,000 years to break down. No body cares about that because they do not knows what can that lead to the environment and animal life. Statistics shows that plastic bags kill over 100,000 animal and a million seabirds every year (RUJNIC-SOKELE, M., & BARIC, G. 2014). Plastic bags cause a huge damage to the animal life. Animals cannot identify or know the difference between the things that they can eat it and the garbage. When any animal eats a plastic bag, it may stick in their stomach for the whole life, which is because animal's stomach cannot digest plastic. Moreover, some animals die due being suffocated after eating a small

There is a solution for this problem by recycling it but it cost a lot of money. There are three options to recycle the polyethylene. The first way is mechanical recycling, which is basically uses physical means such as grinding, heating, end extruding to process polyethylene waste into new products. The second way is chemical recycling, which is basically uses chemical process to convert plastic waste into useful products, such as monomers for new plastics, fuels, or basic chemicals for general chemical production. Finally, energy recovery generates heat or electricity or both whether by direct incineration in municipal incinerators, or by replacing other fuels in blast furnaces, cement kilns, or power stations. Now we can recycle the HDPE and LDPE polyethylene to use them again in other product instate of throwing them in the garbage’s (RUJNIC-SOKELE, M., & BARIC, G. 2014). There are some replacements for the plastic bags; instead of using them we can use some bags that is made of material that is not harmful for the environment and animal life. There are bags that are made of clothes material and paper or any fiber that does not harm as the