Assalamualaikum!

A warm welcome to all the students present here, thank you for gathering today as we talk about Will
banning plastic bags help? Everyday we come across plastics in different forms, from storage containers
to small candy wrappers. It’s all plastic. It is not possible to ban plastic in every form as it is very easy to
use. In this presentation let us learn how the downside and how banning plastic bags help us.

Plastics are mostly derived from petrochemicals and can be found in various forms. Plastics bags are
more easily available everywhere and easy to use. Most of the pollution is caused by these plastic bags,
which even after disposal do not break down for over hundreds of years.

Plastic bags can also be a major reason for air, water and land pollution. Being light in weight, they can
be carried away by  wind and as a result will land in between trees, fences, garbage and water bodies. It
would be harmful as if one consumes without knowledge it will lead to suffocation and death.

As these  are not natural materials, enzymes and bacteria will not be able to degrade them.This when
not disposed properly are eaten by the animals and birds thinking it to be their food, the small particles
of plastics also end up into the soil and grown up along with the other plants. At the end it is indirectly
induced into human food chain when through crops and meat and harm human body as well.

Some store edible things in plastic bags for a longer amount of time, which is very unsafe. Prolong use of
plastic can lead to serious diseases like cancer. Burning plastic bags is as equally harmful as dumping
them in trash as it  can cause a lot of toxic gases to be emitted which will be harmful in inhalation. So, In
this regard, we start a campaign to ban plastic bags.