Comments on: Why Plastic Bags are Good for the Environment

By: Michael

Michael — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:14:34 +0000

I think your expository writing is great!

By: Jim

Jim — Sat, 25 Sep 2010 11:27:59 +0000

I proudly take plastic bags. Plastic bag workers need jobs too.
This anti-plastic bag stuff is just more Do-gooder nonsense.
Do-gooders gave us no Nuclear plants so we could be more dependent on Oil, Less insecticide so we can have Bedbugs again and Bears roaming in New Jersey suburbs to name a few. All this environmental do-gooder stuff leads to is more trouble for everyone.

By: Ed

Ed — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 11:06:38 +0000

you seem want revenge on plastic bags because they made your job hard.

By: Mikaela

Mikaela — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 02:27:29 +0000

I must say i disagree with your view on plastics. These “myths” are facts. Did you do your research before you wrote this essay? Most plastics are put into the ocean(more than on land & land fills cause horrible pollution as well). Because of this there is a place called The Garbage Patch in the Pacific Ocean. It’s off the coast of California all the way to China (10 million squared miles). This is mainly plastics hence your plastic bags. If you search what The Garbage Patch is you will see the horrible effects of it. It kills numbers of marine life and sea birds. There is 6x more plastic pieces and plastic bags in the ocean than plankton, one of the most plentiful entity of the ocean.So when people would rather save the enviroment than use a plastic bag there is a solid reason for it. Every piece of plastic does count, things add up. Plastic bags are our friends ? Really because they are helping destroy our Planet. All things are linked, we need the ocean to survive as well as the land, and dumping plastics into them has no positive effect.
-Mick

By: Nat

Nat — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 15:09:07 +0000

I agree with kyle, you are not making sense in this artical. If you feel that the problem is the fact that you cant be bothered to take an item back out of a bag when a customer dosnt want one then just do yourself a favour and ask is they want one before hand. I also used to work in retail and it is true that some customers can be rude when declining your offer of a bag but thats down to their rudeness not the bag itself. As for saying: whats the point of saving the landfill an extra two years , and instead just get a new one, is again another rediculous point… why would you want them to cover out land with rubbish, maybe in a place near were you live, when you can fit extra into one that already exists. also at the end of the day if you work you will get taxed Irrelevant of how many landfill sites there are.. you obviously have no idea.

By: kyle

kyle — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:46:35 +0000

this argument doesnt make sense to me. are you saying that because we dont use a plastic bag we are giving money to dump sites? if this is the case then i dont understand the problem just because they make more money doesnt mean that consumers will spend more, and yes there will always be dumps but why would we not want to decrease the amount of non biodegradable materials in trash .also you cant dispell those \”myths\” because they are facts learn the difference. plastic bags polute water supplies and kill wildlife decreasing biodiversity which we are very much dependent on. This argument looks like nothing more then a justification to be lazy to me.