Use Of Plastic Bags Essay

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Awareness towards the use of Plastic Bags with special reference to Warangal City
* Dr.Y.Kishore Kumar
Abstract
Plastic bags and bottles, like all forms of plastic, create significant environmental and economic burdens. They consume growing amounts of energy and other natural resources, degrading the environment in numerous ways. In addition to using up fossil fuels and other resources, plastic products create litter, hurt marine life, and threaten the basis of life on earth.
Plastic bag usage can be environmentally very damaging. The bags take hundreds of years to degrade and fill up landfill sites. Plastic litter can also lead to clogged drains, which result in sanitation, flooding and sewage problems. In addition, plastic bags can harm animals through ingestion and the incineration of plastic bags pollutes the air and releases toxic substances. Plastic bags are also responsible for using up oil, a scarce natural resource.
These concerns have caused governments across the world, including the …show more content…

Plastic Carry Bags create a major environmental and health problem in India. As city is being swarmed with plastic bag waste which contributes to blockage of drains and gutters, creates threat to water bodies and causes death to human beings and animals. Warangal people are highly aware about the hazardous effects of plastic bags and they have started avoiding the usage of plastic bags, and slowly started moving towards eco-friendly bags. The campaign, awareness programs and news about the ban on plastics and the inculcation of hazardous factors of plastic bags helped in the reduction of usage of plastic bags. But still in Warangal City, plastic bags are used in grocery shops, hotels, super markets, Fruits and Vegetable Markets etc. This can be controlled by the efforts of Government, Public and the individual consumer to make their living safe and

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