The advantages to using eco-friendly bags over plastic bags are endless. The biggest challenge to making that transition is actually doing it! With so much plastic building up in our environment – from the tops of the mountains to the bottom of the ocean – It is imperative that we find a solution to plastic pollution.
Plastic, unlike many other modern materials, not only requires valuable resources to produce, such as petroleum and natural gas, but also permeates the environment on a large scale due to it’s inability to break down. Plastic bags alone take up to 1,000 years to degrade. That is to say, break down into smaller and smaller pieces, because plastic is not biodegradable. Yet despite this fact, the average plastic bag is only used for about 12 minutes before it is discarded: thus creating an unimaginable amount of plastic waste in our homes, landfills, streets, and waterways.Luckily, one of the simplest and most economical ways to decrease our plastic consumption is by using eco-friendly bags. There are numerous advantages to using eco-friendly bags, including reduced waste, increased convenience, and many others.The advantages to using eco-friendly bags over plastic bags are endless. The biggest challenge to making that transition is actually doing it.