Plastic Bags..."The Harsh Facts"

License # 2008-203 issued by Canyon Records from Kirsten Butler, Director of Licenses and Permissions. Thank you for granting me permission to use this beautiful music from the album "Inner Voices" by R.Carlos Nakai. This is a photo slideshow depicting the danger of plastic bags worldwide......and what you can do to reduce this growing problem to our environment.

Category:

Nonprofits & Activism

Tags:

• plastic
• bags
• environment

[eatingrainbows2010]

AS with any disposable item the only solution is to stop producing them. Nothing else will work the majority of humans are self absorbed, creatures who want what they want and to hell with anyone or anything else.

[BondiBJ]

I'm so amazed that they not mentioning that grocery stores can use the biodegradable plastic! Plastic that dissolves in nature! We do not have to use bad plastic, we can have our grocery stores buy the recycle plastic bags & that solves that HUGE problem! Why aren't we discussing this??? We all should stay away from grocery stores that do not use them!!! Lets get on the badwagon for those who do not make the effort...

[eatingrainbows2010]

@kiaistar

hey saw your non-profit but no contact check out mine at eating rainbows dot net

[kiaistar]

@eatingrainbows2010 Please do! I'm building a non-profit called Care For Earth aimed at educating the public on best practices and dangers. Let me know if you're interested in helping out. I'm at info at care for earth dot org. best, kiai

[eatingrainbows2010]

@kiaistar I would love to see that begin here in America. I have never heard anything about it. I will investigate and start a buzz if I can. Thank you for telling me of this.

[kiaistar]

@BondiBJ That "biodegradable" plastic is not safe. They break down into smaller pieces of polymers but do not fully degrade into basic elements. Plant-based plastics release high levels of methane, which isn't terrible since it can be burned, but it's expensive to produce. Additionally, plastics are by-products of gasoline. As long as we consume gasoline, there WILL be petroleum plastics that do not compost.

[kiaistar]

@eatingrainbows2010 In the meantime, and to get rid of what already exists, plastic can be safely incinerated to produce electricity as is done in Denmark where there are at least 12 incinerators. The newest will power 60,000 homes.

[kolaida]

@AquarielCharm What's actually really disturbing to me is how little attn these videos are getting. Or how little discussion there is surrounding them. I mean there's more discussion on Top Hits and even gospel hymns! You'd think a subject like this where every person could literally come together despite beliefs, race, gender etc, there would be more unification, but there's not really. It's more of a, "Oh, I wish but we can't do anything." When, in fact, we CAN! It's aggravating!

[kolaida]

@AquarielCharm Yeah, I've seen The Last Mountain and Food Inc as well. It's amazing how much oil we use. And, frankly, it's pretty disgusting. We don't actually need plastic; people survived without it before us. We don't actually need cars. And we don't actually need super mass production of meat. It's amazing how all this stuff links together and most of it can be directly contributed to giant corporations and greedy politicians! It's crazy!

[AquarielCharm]

@kolaida - Sure is. Oil goes in much more than just gas tanks. Most of our daily items are oil based. Food is grown with petroleum based fertilizers, sprayed with oil based pesticides and herbicides, tilled, harvested and processed by fossil fueled tractors and machinery, trucked hundreds and thousands of miles and cooked over gas, or coal or oil based electricity. There's fossil fuels right on our dinner plates. (Google "toxic sewage sludge used as organic fertilizer.")

[kolaida]

@ryanheath2006 But that's just it. Have you seen the process of recycling after someone does throw it into a recycle bin? It's not really the answer. Not all of it even gets recycled. Plus, you have community problems. I've lived at a couple places where curbside recycling wasn't even an option! You had to bring all the stuff yourself to the center! Even then, it's not as helpful as, go figure, the large corporations producing this stuff leads people to believe. better to do away with it!

[kolaida]

@AquarielCharm And ironically, isn't a small part of plastic made of oil?