Some people believe that plastic shopping bags damage the environment and their use should be prohibited. Other people insist that consumers should have the right to choose whether they want to use a plastic bag or not. Discuss both views and give your opinion

Plastic
abuse is becoming a serious environmental problem these years and shopping
bags
is one of the main source of
plastic
in
people
's daily life. Many said that there should be a ban on
plastic
shopping
bags
for protecting our earth.
However
, some
people
believe that they should have the freedom to pick the
bags
for groceries.
Plastic
is a material that can
last
over
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hundreds without being melted naturally,
this
is its
an
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advantage but
also
weakness
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. Countless wild animals
such
as seals
,
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and sea turtles around the world have been negatively affected
such
as eating it accidentally by
plastic
since it had been invented in
last
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decades. In
the
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meanwhile, most
of
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the
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plastic
shopping
bags
are just thrown away after
been
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used once or twice and these
bags
could be either buried or thrown
to
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the river and go to
ocean
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finally
. unfortunately,these two ways can not deal with these
bags
environmentally-friendly
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.
Therefore
, the
limination
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elimination
limitation
on
plastic
shopping
bags
is necessary. 
However
, it can not be doubted that
plastic
shopping
bags
is
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cheap, convenient and durable compared with other material
bags
such
as paper or cloth. It may increase
people
's grocery cost if there
is
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no
plastic
shopping
bags
available.
Furthermore
, paper and cloth
bags
can not
be replace
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with
plastic
bags
perfectly as they are not water-proof and as stable as
plastics
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bags
. In my opinion, the right for choosing shopping
bags
should not be taken from the general public, but
people
's awareness of reusing
plastic
shopping
bags
needs to be increased and better
plastic
recycling methods should be used. In conclusion,
plastic
shopping
bags
is
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damaging our environment indeed but
people
should keep their right for using them the awareness of reusing and the methods of recycling can not be ignored.
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