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 Blog Post #1: Environmental Effects of the Plastic Bags


1. What is one local or impact of plastic bag waste you observed in the video that you didn't know about, hadn't thought about before, or just found particularly interesting? 
     
   -After watching the"Battle of the Bag" Documentary, one thing in particular that stood out to me is the effect that plastic bags has on animals. Although I was aware of this information before, I never knew how bad the damage was. In the documentary, animals in Delhi, India are dying daily due to their consumption of the plastic bags and trash. In Delhi, they still dump their garbage on land and leave it unburied. The animals here such as Cows roam this land, and as they search for food, they consume these bags and its contents. Animals in the oceans all throughout the world, are all affected by plastic bags. Turtles in particular is an animal that I know that has suffered for years due to this. Plastic bags do not just harm our environment but also the inhabitants of our planet.

2.Choose one specific way--one that you found compelling or promising--in which people in the video were attempting to manage or solve this local effect or impact, ad describe it briefly.
        
   -The impact that was the most promising to me to limit plastic bag waste, was the young lady who convinced those in her local town to stop using plastic bags. After her leaders in her community did not value what she had to say, she went to the people who mattered most. This lady went to all the local shop owners in her community and showed them a video of the effects plastic has on dolphins. This video was enough for those shop owners to switch from plastic to more environmental friendly bags.

3.How do you think we should deal with plastic bag waste? Is it a problem we should solve at the local scale, at the national scale, at the global scale, at another scale, or at some combination of scales? Why? Alternatively, as the manufacturer suggested, are plastic bags "misunderstood"-and thus not a problem to be solved?

    -I think that plastic bag waste should be handled differently in different communities. Although plastic bag waste is an issue all over, some places it is a greater issue than others. I think it should start off by being handled locally. Starting locally will be the start of a wonderful process for it to be more widely enforced by higher levels. 
    












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