Plastic shopping bags are used widely and cause many environmental problems. Some people say they should be banned. To what extent do you agree or disagree?

The environmental issue is trending nowadays as the number of people concerned about the impact of employing

plastic

is higher. Not a few human beings believe that the overuse of

plastic

shopping

bags

has contributed a lot to many problems in our surroundings.

Thus

, they love the idea to ban that kind of bag in order to try to stop and prevent the current problems.

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the way I am thinking, I agree with that statement and believe that we have to start minimizing the frequency of utilizing it if we can not totally ban it. There are many justifications why we should remove

plastic

bags

from our daily activities.

First,

it is not easy to break down the structure of them. I have read a plethora of articles discussing the fact that artificial bag is hard to be broken down naturally, and as much as I can remember, those articles are legit. It takes thousand years just to seize up one single

plastic

. In

this

case, tons of

plastic

bags

we use will always be there, and they will pile up and bother our environment. The second reason, which is not less essential as the first one, is regarding the expense. It could be argued that

plastic

bags

are very affordable, which is true.

However

, the fact that they are so cheap means the public will not overthink throwing them away once they are used.

As a consequence

, the number of

plastic

-type-related rubbish will always be high.

On the other hand

, strong paper-based shopping

bags

,

for instance

, are absolutely more expensive than the aforementioned type of

bags

. But, they are able to be used multiple times, resulting in the number of wasted shopping

bags

decreased. On top of that, the amount of money we spend for a couple of

plastic

bags

, which we will likely use in a short period of time, could be used to purchase a paper-based shopping bag that will

last

longer.

Thus

, the price of using paper-based shopping

bags

is relatively cheaper than traditional

plastic

bags

, in general.

To sum up

, I believe we should start not using

plastic

bags

anymore. There are so many benefits we can obtain if we apply

this

, especially regarding preventing more environmental issues to occur in the future.