plastic bags

a. What are some of the potential benefits of charging fees for and/or banning plastic bags?
b. What are some of the potential drawbacks of such programs?
c. Which benefits and drawbacks seem the most compelling? Why?
d. Would you support a local law charging fees for (or banning) plastic bags? Why or why not?

a) It helps to reduce pollution by encouraging reusable bags
b) That the economy begins to go down.
c) Benefit is that it’ll help you carrying bags, but the drawbacks are that it’ll pollute a lot.
d) In this moment no, because the economic problems are really bad and instead of helping it’ll be worst.


1. Do you agree with this new law? Why or why not?2. What has been done so far?3. What needs to be done to enforce such a law?4. What campaigns would you suggest?

1) Yes, because it’ll help the environment and make this a cleaner city.
2) They are changing the plastic bags to new ones with biodegradable material.
3) To the legislatives to approve it
4) One that make people realize what they have done with the city and what sort of measures we have to take.

BAGS

I. Why are plastic bags so common?
II. In what other ways is plastic used?
III. What are the benefits of plastic bags?
IV. What are the dangers of plastic bags?
V. What has been done so far?
VI. Has it been successful? Why or why not?

I. Because they use them to transport things.
II. In bottles, toys, electronics, clothing, wraps, etc
III. They are cheap; they help you carry things with more resistance than paper bags.
IV. They contaminate a lot and take a long time to disintegrate and go back to nature.
V. They have done programs and new plastic bags that can help environment.
VI. So far there hasn’t been a visible improvement, but I think that in time it´ll work.