Rubber Mulch Blog

We all should know, that plastic bags are bad for our environment, yet we still use them everyday, people discard them without a thought, supermarkets and smaller shops are still dispensing them as if they are the only thing we can carry our shopping in and they don’t cost us any money.

The action of using environmentally friendly shopping bags, is more of a thing these days, but not everyone will use them or remember to take them to the store. Some shops have even done away with using the plastic bag altogether, although not enough shops even think about it. People in the past had to pay a penny for a plastic bag in most shops, but now we get them for free.

Should we not be put off using them even more?

We should have to pay for them again, or have signs up in shops telling us how bad they are. We could even go to a bit of an extreme and shame people who use plastic bags all the time.

In the past, when plastic bags where not as popular, most people had certain bags, made of hessian, cotton or some other material, that where used specifically for shopping, then the plastic bags really hit the planet and everyone was carrying everything in them.

Today you can see plastic bags, that have written on them that they are more biodegradable. What a cop out, they are still an eye sore, when people discard them and they will take years to degrade. The plastic bag industry should be stopped outright, no mucking around, we should all use bags that we can be safe in the thought, that they are not going to break easily and will be used over and over again, some for years. Also they will not end up hanging from trees, round the neck of an animal, in the stomach of fish and even suffocating children.

The only environment left to us to explore more, is the sea and we are killing it with plastic. The amount of plastic bags in the oceans and seas amount to so many tonnes, that it is quite unbelievable, this is killing a natural food source, not just for us, but for everything that lives there. Did you know that marine biologists have found micro grains of plastic, from bags in the smallest of creatures, which is food for many fish that we then eat?

So do our environment a favor, recycle your remaining plastic bags and never buy or use another one. Be responsible and use something that you can carry with you, for many years, which will be as strong as your convictions when it comes to our environment.