Sunday, 26 May 2013

Plastic Bag Poster

In case you haven't seen our plastic bag poster, here it is!

How do plastic bags harm the environment?


Plastic bags have led to negative impacts on: animals, plants, and the environment.


Decomposed Plastics → Comes out as“plastic dust" → Contaminates animal life, the soil and water (including oceans and seas).



Animals


  • Animals likely mistake plastic bags as food. When they ingest plastic bags, it obstructs their digestive systems and they eventually die.
  • Meanwhile, Birds become trapped in plastic bags and marine animals also entangled in them and suffocate or starve to death. 
  • After animals die, their bodies decompose and the plastic is released back into the environment again, which is a vicious circle of killing other living organisms again. 


Plants


  • When plastic bags are littered, plant life on land is smothered and killed.
  • In the ocean, plastic bags mostly sink to the bottom, which smothers marine plant life and kills them. 

Thus, when the number of animals and plants has decreased to a certain number, it interrupts the food chain and eventually, the ecosystem.

Plastic Bag Poster Survey

Hello Readers, 

If you haven't already, give us your thoughts on our new poster by filling out this survey: 
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1cqH2C7itvvXYNec8K69jofut9K2v6aLI3zlpCU4faqI/viewform

Thank you!