This is a fact that plastic bags are killers. Every day over a billion plastic bags are given out in one form or the other. Plastic bags do not bio degrade, they photo degrade which are breaking down into smaller and smaller toxic bits contaminating soil and waterways and killing animals when they are ingested. Hundreds of thousands of sea turtles, whales and other marine mammals die every year from eating discarded plastic bags mistaken for food. Turtles think the plastic bags are jellyfish in which their primary source of food. When swallowed, plastic bags choke animals or block their intestines thus it may causes an agonizing death. Even on land, many cows, goats and other animals suffer a similar fate when they accidentally swallow plastic bags as they search for food. In order to increase people’s concern on the harmful effect of plastic bags, so people need to implement kind of way that stated as campaign, reuse, education, replacement and enforcement.
An awareness campaign is the common way to inform people about the harmful effects of plastic bags to their environment. The aim of the campaign should be focus on how to reduce the usage of plastic bags, and encourage people shift slowly their usage to the Environmental Friendly Bag. Say ‘No’ to plastic bags might be the best name of the campaign. Say NO to plastic bags program encourages shoppers and retailers to start using alternatives and increase plastic bag recycling. An advertisement about say NO to plastic bag must be paste all over shopping complex, supermarket, and shops. In the advertisement also must stress on BRING YOUR OWN PLASTIC so that it will make people clear on the aim of the campaign. Besides, customers who insist on plastic bags will have to pay 10 sen per bag. If they refuse to do so therefore the only alternative is by bringing their own bag next.
Secondly, the way to stop using plastic bags and to go green is reuse the plastic bags. Everybody knows that plastic bags such a killer to our environment. To avoid plastic bags from being killer of our environment, people should start to reuse plastic bags. In example, people usually obtain plastic bags from convenience shop or café. As a person who responsible to take care and concern about environment, people should not easily throw away the plastic bags into dustbin. People should reuse it because plastic bags can be use to put thing. If someone want to go to somewhere , he can put thing in the plastic bags and he can easily to carry the things and go to the place that he want to go. By this way, people can save our environment because government can reduce the production of plastic bags in our country. So, government should promote to the people to reuse back the plastic bags.
Next, the way to stop using plastic bags and to go green is through education. Education is something that really important to every country. Through education, the people will be civilized because people nowadays know how important education in people life. Education play an important role to educate people to make people clear about the harmful effect of using plastic bags. Government as a big power in a country should tell people that plastic bags have chemical that harmful not only to the environment but also into human body. Some people like to burn plastic bags when they do not want to use it anymore but nobody concern with the harmful of burning plastic bags that can bring cancer into their life because of lacking of knowledge and education about the harmful effect of plastic bags. In example, parents at home should start to educate their children about the harmful effect of plastic bags. It is because, parents are close to their children so that, children can easily educate before school start to take over the responsible. Hence, education is important to help government to save our environment and to go green,
Fourthly, the way to raise up the concern level of the harmful effect of plastic bags are replacement. When people try to prevent others from using plastic bags they need to find an alternative to replace plastic bags. As people notice that nowadays is an urbanization period and due to the invention of the technology scientist can find other ways as an alternative of plastic bags. Paper bags is one of the alternative ways that have been used in some country like United States, by using paper bags it can reduce the usage of plastic bags. One of the advantages of the paper bags is, it can decomposes easily rather than plastic bags. The problem with plastic bags are it cannot decomposes and for plastic bags alternative we must find that can decomposes easily and not bring harm to the environment. Other than that is use bags that make from fabric, as everybody know that when we use fabric bags it can be use for many times rather than plastic bags that only can be use for once or twice.
Last but not least, the other way to stop using plastic bags and to go green is through enforcement of rules and regulations. Through the enforcement of rules and regulations it can prevent people from using plastic bags and for that it can make our environment become more greener. Suggestion that can be considered by the government is for example government can strictly limit the use of plastic bags and for those that still use plastic bags can be fine. The purpose of enforcement of rules and regulations are to make the give a lesson for those who are stubborn and do not want to stop from plastic bags. The enforcement of plastic bags can be made after government had done implement other ways of realizing the people on how harmful effect of plastic bags, on the other words are the enforcement of rules and regulations are the last action that government can implement. By the enforcement of rules and regulations it can make people more concern about the harmful effect of plastic bags.
As a conclusion, by knowing the harmful effect of plastic bags that can bring to this world it makes people start to reduce the usage of plastic bags and go green. In order to increase people’s concern on the harmful effect of plastic bags, so people need to implement kind of way that stated as campaign, reuse, education, replacement and enforcement. Plastic bags issue is a big issue because it give harm not only on human instead plastic bags also give harm to the plant, soil, animal and many more.
