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2- Plastic shopping bags contribute to the pollution of land and sea, some think they should be banned. Do you agree or disagree?

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Plastic
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 bags are no doubt very useful in many ways, but it has its own dis-
advanges
the quality of having a superior or more favorable position
advantages
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.
Firstly
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, to discuss its advantages, It is easy to carry, fold and bring wet and some other food items
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.
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, food items like - mutton, meat, chicken, beef, fish etc. It's easy to bring them in
plastic
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 bags, Use and through them. Especially, for above said items
plastic
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 bags are much useful. Because, these food items, will have a bad smell.
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, it is easy to carry wet items in
plastic
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 bags.
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, milk, curd, butter, cheese, ice cream boxes etc. If these wet items carried in a cloth
bag
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,
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bag
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the bag
 will become wet and we have to dry it. After some times use, we have to wash it, to re-use it.
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otherwise
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Otherwise
 it will start stinking after some time.
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, fruits,
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, grapes, can get squeezed, sometimes within the
bag
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, in those cases, cloth bags will get drenched, where as there is no problem with
plastic
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bag
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, as it is used & through. Actually, the major disadvantage of these
plastic
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 bags is, these do not dissolve, and when eaten by animals it will harm and kill them. Recent studies shown that many fishes and some other aquatic animals in the sea
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 died because of these
plastic
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 bags. Since, we have a lot of illiteracy in India and people are very stubborn, it's difficult to educate them and make them practise the safety rules. So, to conclude, it is better to ban them.
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