Benefits of Recycling Plastic Bags

Recycling Plastic Bags Prevents Litter

▪ Plastic is a large part of the waste stream, often endingup in forests and on roads.

▪ Plastic bags are something that animals often pull out ofresidential garbage cans, and this plastic ends up onroadways and in forests. Plastic bags catch the wind andoften make their way into trees. This is not a pleasantsight--it's better to bundle them up and take them to arecycling depot.

Recycling Plastic Bags Reduces Waste

▪ New compounds can be created of recycled plastic bags.

▪ Recycling plastic bags helps reduce the use of newplastics. It also helps reduce the use of wood. Mostrecycled plastic bags become part of a plastic-lumbercomposite material, reducing the need to cut downforests to create lumber products. In an era of increasingenvironmental constraint, thinking wisely about reuserather than using new materials makes sense.

Recycling Plastic Bags Helps Sea Life

▪ Plastic bags floating in the ocean damage sea life.

▪ Recycling plastic bags prevents them from eventuallybeing dumped into the ocean, where they could not onlybecome part of the Pacific Garbage Patch, but alsodirectly damage marine life. Sea turtles, for example, canstarve to death if they eat a plastic bag. These turtlesnaturally eat jellyfish, and floating plastic bags look likejellyfish to them. Once ingested, plastic bags disrupt theirdigestive tracts.

Source:eHow.com

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