In many countries, plastic shopping bags are the main source of rubbish. They cause water and land pollution, and so they should be banned. To what extent do you agree with this statement?

Garbage is one of the major causes of hazardous pollution in both bodies of

water

and

land

area. Numerous nation faces

this

tremendous conundrum because

plastic

waste is extremely uncontrollable. I immensely agree that

plastic

bags

must be totally banned. On the one hand,

plastic

is nonbiodegradable material and once dumped on

land

areas, it will have a great negative effect on soil fertility since it is severely difficult to decompose.

Such

as in the agricultural

land

sectors, most farmers could not come up with high-quality root crop products since the soil has been damaged, polluted and contaminated with

plastic

chemicals in the past years.

Hence

,

plastic

must be replaced by eco-friendly paper

bags

for shopping purposes so that it will decompose easily; a vast area of

land

would maintain the maximum level of soil fertility,

also

farmers shall produce the best quality of agricultural products.

On the other hand

, tons of

plastic

garbages were cluttered on the

land

surfaces that might be flushed to different bodies of

water

such

as river, lake and ocean during torrential rain and flood that could contaminate the normal status of

water

.

This

is the reason why rubbish occupies and circulates in the vast majority of the ocean which contributes to danger to the life of sea creatures

such

as dolphins, turtles and fish.

Thus

, dolphins consume that

plastic

as well entangled their body with

plastic

materials and suffered from suffocation leading to a high mortality rate of sea mammals. In summary, pollution of

water

and

land

is brought by

plastic

waste products. All sea mammals and agricultural areas are affected and contaminated.

Therefore

,

plastic

bags

must be eradicated worldwide and must be replaced by eco-friendly paper

bags

to maintain a healthy environment.