Comments on: Should We Ban or Tax the Plastic Bag?

By: Guido

Guido — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 09:55:35 +0000

I don’t think they should be banned. How the hell are we suppose to get our groceries home? We all don’t plan our days that way. I avoid businesses that charge a TAX on bags.

By: lol

lol — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 13:10:37 +0000

i agree that we should ban plastic bags because it will increase the number of animals dying per year due to suffocating etc.

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By: 69359

69359 — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 23:00:45 +0000

we shouldn’t ban plastic bags or tax them

By: Christina

Christina — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 22:23:08 +0000

if people want major changes, they must lose something in return, like a cost. the banning of plastic bags saves the environment, but also causes inconvinence in people’s daly lives and jobs relating to plastic bag industry to be lost. but overall i still think it’s worth it to ban or tax the use of plastic bags, because plastic bags brings more damages than convinence. people have lived centuraries without using plastic bags, now that they are starting to see the damages of it, it’s time to go back to the good old days…

By: Ashley

Ashley — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 16:05:03 +0000

plastic bags should be banned i do agree with this and i want to know that why plastic bags should be banned

By: Claire

Claire — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 07:23:59 +0000

Good Morning madam chairperson, 7W, Mrs Hanley and Mr Quain. Our topic for today is ‘That Plastic Bags Should Be Banned’ but our team firmly agrees that banning them is not necessarily the best option. Our team defines plastic as a substance which can be shaped when soft and then hardened, bags as containers for carrying or holding items and banned as forbidding people to see, read, use or do it.
As the negative team, we will prove to you that it is not necessary to ban plastic bags, because there are other, more important things we have to worry about. As first speaker for the negative team I will discuss that we have more serious issues to worry about than plastic bags and how plastic bags are useful and that we would find it very hard to live without them. Our second speaker will argue that plastic bags are a better alternative than canvas and brown paper bags and that plastic bags shouldn’t be banned, just restricted, our third speaker will summarize our argument for us.
We all know that there are lots of serious things happening in our world right now for example global warming, the global financial crisis, underage drinking, cancer, drugs, swine flu and heaps more, these are problems that need a lot of attention and work put towards them to make them a thing of the past. My team agrees that politicians and other important people should be spending their time finding resolutions for these problems and less time discussing plastic bags. Wouldn’t you be happier if the government gave the money it cost to ban plastic bags to scientists which then helped them find a cure for cancer? What about underage drinking? If the government put the money it cost to ban plastic bags towards stopping underage drinking it could save hundreds even thousands, of young lives each year. In other words banning plastic bags could kill people. The government could save money by not banning plastic bags and put that money back into our communities by using it to build schools, doctors surgeries, roads, community centres and many other things that would boost our community, wouldn’t’t you rather that, than see plastic bags banned?
There are a lot of things that plastic bags can be used for like when we take the dog for a walk we tie a few bags around the lead to use as a pooper scooper if we didn’t then the dog poo would be polluting our environment. For example the Irish government has banned plastic bags but has noticed an increase in the amount of dog droppings in public places, plastic bags are used as rubbish bin liners to stop you rubbish from sticking to the side of the bin, stuffing inside packages to stop the gift sliding around and thousands of other simple everyday things that we don’t notice but couldn’t do without plastic bags. Now here are some craft ideas for plastic bags including homemade toys like a scarecrow and using them to stuff plush toys. If you have no use for the plastic bags you have you can return them to the grocery store where they can be reused or put them in your recycle bin where they will be recycled. Plastic bags are a very useful item to have around the home and if they were to be banned we will find it very difficult and have lots of problems finding other alternate solutions to plastic bags.
Thank-you for listening and remember “Banning Plastic Bags Is Not Necessary”.

By: nikki

nikki — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 10:01:19 +0000

i was wondering if you could tell me the disadantages of plastic bags please!
thanks
Nikki

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