Plastic bag

Disadvantages of plastic shopping bags
In 2002, a National Packaging Covenant Council plastic bags working group in Australia identified four main concerns with plastic shopping bags:
 * 1) Plastic bag littering, and associated indiscriminate waste disposal and consumer behaviour;
 * 2) Resource consumption issues, including reduction, reuse and recycling;
 * 3) Plastic degradability issues relating to littering and resource use;
 * 4) Social issues, community education and awareness, and consumer perceptions.

The following disadvantages have also been identified:
 * Plastic bags are made of petrochemicals which are not a renewable resource.
 * Plastic bags are flimsy and often do not stand up as well as paper or still cloth.
 * When littered or improperly disposed of, they are unsightly and can be a hazard to wildlife.
 * Most plastic bags do not readily decompose when littered nor in a sealed sanitary landfill.
 * Plastic bags can cause unsupervised infants to suffocate.

Campaigns against Plastic bags

 * Make and distribute cotton bags to fight against plastic bags
 * campaign at we are what we do

Achievements

 * Modbury, the First Town to become Plastic Bag Free in UK


 * Supermarkets which are plastic bag free:
 * IKEA