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The Plastics Committee of Pollution Control Board said that the daily use of grocery bags for sundry purposes is the real culprit as far as the volume and dispersion is concerned. In Bangalore, an estimated 500,000 polybags are used per day every day forming about 25% of all forms of plastics used. This results in garbage getting crowded with
polybags.
Harmful effects of polybags
- Rag pickers are prone to skin infections, respiratory ailments while collecting polybags for recycling.
- Recycled polybags are not suitable to carry food.
- Polybags being non-biodegradable accumulate in the soil suffocating the plant
and animal life.
- Animals may eat/swallow the polybags. Recently a local newspaper
carried a cover story - `Polybags kill 18 deer in the national park in Bangalore'. On post-mortem, it was
' found that the blockage of food passage with polybags eaten caused the death.
- Polybags are silent killers.
- Drains clogged by Plastic Bags
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Soil Life suffocated by menace of Polybags
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Non – Biodegradable plastic accumulation – A growing monster
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Screaming Headlines
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Polybags kill 18 Deer in Bannerghatta National Park
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Courtesy
Nilgiris
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Polybags - could Explode the earth
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Any reduction in use of polybags would, therefore, have a direct positive impact on the
environment. A suitable, simple way is to use cloth and
paper bags 'which are not only eco-friendly but also are
an income generating activity for the poor women preparing
the bags.
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Banish polybags - promote cloth/paper bags
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Harshit, Safdhar & Hari
displaying their eco friendly
carry bags.
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