Let's fight over plastic bag together!

Let's fight over plastic bag together!

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Jungwoon Jang

 

            When you buy items, what are usually wrapped? Most of you say it is plastic. After you took the item in the plastic packing, you would throw it away into the trash can. Then, the trash would go to landfill. And it will sleep about more than 100 years. As you know, plastic bag is much harmful to the earth. To change people not to impair the environment, all people should help to solve this problem. There are many ways to reduce or change plastic bags. Among them, three solutions will be introduced.

            To reduce the plastic bag, the authorities in the world should make the law. According to City of Seoul, one person spends around 370 plastic bags per one year. The authority should make market places and many shops change packing into paper bags. Some big marts started using paper bags, however, others still use many plastic bags. If the stores that do not follow the rule, the authority has to impose fine. Such this law can reduce the amount of using plastic bags.

             Another way to decrease the plastic, alternative material can be developed. In fact, Eco-Sand Solution, a company producing substitute, designed a bag that is made from separable starch. This material takes much shorter time to be decomposed than plastic. Also, it is not harmful to the ground. Therefore, if the bag that consists of starch is used by many people, the earth can be saved.

            The other way to become free from the plastic, participation in campaign is helpful. Regarding to campaign that insists the world prohibit using plastic bags, Zero MiKa, a campaign in Morocco, started picking up the plastic bags and told not to use the bags to people. Zero Mika publicized their aim on the SNS such as Facebook and websites. They have enlightened people to protect environment. Efforts from an individual take start great movement.

            Making sustainable environment is not difficult problem. In terms of country, laws that urge many companies and stores to substitute packaging will change people’s life. Furthermore, technology developing alternative materials keeps producing new package materials. Lastly, many actions reducing using plastic bags can make healthy earth. As all efforts from every field are gathered, the earth will become a sustainable to descendants in the future.