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Therefore we expose:

1. Make a small effort from the city councils,


citizen organizations, merchants' FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS
associations and commercial chains to
encourage consumers and businesses to
DE LA SALUD
replace free plastic bags with another type
of more resistant and durable container.
ESCUELA PROFESIONAL DE
2. Voluntary substitution or collection
PSICOLOGIA
agreements would be suitable to curb the
generalized consumption of bags. But as it
may be insufficient, we also need decisive INGLES
actions aimed at limiting the consumption of
plastic bags.
INTEGRANTE:
3. That the Government should take the
 GUERRERO BONIFACIO Leslie M.
indiscriminate and free consumption of
plastic bags with an environmental tax high
enough to be dissuasive. That money would
DOCENTE:
not profit the merchant, but would invest in
research and development of clean  Dr. HUAMAN CELMI Enrique Camilo
production technologies that minimize the
generation of waste and in mechanisms to
TEMA: Uso responsable de la bolsa de
eliminate single-use bags.
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Reducing waste is fighting against climate


change HUARAZ - ANCASH – PERU
2019
Consuming less and better, we protect the Reasons to say "no to plastic bags"
environment:
 They are manufactured from petroleum, a
Consuming less and better, we protect the non-renewable resource, costly,
environment The plastic bag is the star product increasingly scarce and responsible for the
of our throwaway culture, which wastes large emission of greenhouse gases, that is,
quantities of materials and energy to produce climate change.
ephemeral products for single use, often  Recycling is not profitable: it costs 100
superfluous. Plastic bags can be easily replaced times more to recycle than to produce them
by durable and environmentally friendly again.
containers. In Spain they use about 250 bags per  Most ends up in the sea or burned in
inhabitant per year. Both its manufacture and incinerators and cement kilns. Bags have
distribution and its subsequent treatment cause been found floating north of the arctic circle
important environmental problems. For all these and in remote places of the southern
water, energy and the environmental cost of oil.
reasons we consider that its disappearance is Once it has become a waste it takes more than a Atlantic.
necessary. century to degrade. It is very easy to eliminate  Contaminate during its manufacture and its
this waste, which is so harmful to the incineration (dioxins, cyanide, etc.)
environment and easily replaced by traditional  Some are printed with toxic inks.
reusable and long-lived systems.  They take between 150 and 1000 years to
decompose.
 Its dispersion in nature causes death of
animals in the terrestrial and aquatic
environment. Turtles, dolphins or sperm
whales, for example, eat them because they
are mistaken for jellyfish and squid. It is
An abusive use: increasingly common to find them in
corpses of marine animals because they
As they are usually free, they are consumed cause blockage, irritation or laceration of the
without measure and many more are even used digestive tract and reduce the amount of
than necessary. A plastic bag has an average life food that animals can eat.
of 12 minutes and for its production and  They are easily replaced by traditional
distribution consumes systems: cloth bags, carts, baskets, paper.

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