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" When we dump plastic in the sea turtles and other animals mistaken plastic bags for food"

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From " Greener ideal" by greener ideal staff, plastic bags can realse toxic chemicals into the soil that pollutes the soil and all the plants growing in there. Theses plants feed animals like cows and sheep. These would kill all the animals that would eat the flower.

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If we look for alternative strategies the people would stop using plastic bags and find a way to make people stop poluting the enviorment. People just drop plastic bags anywere and the plastic bags fly threw the air and go to other places. Also the tax dosent have an effect on the people so whats th epoint.

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From "Sirs Discover" "We made Plastic. Now were drowing in it.
Ocean plastric kills millions of marine animals every year. Some beaches are ankel deepin small graded up plastic bits. Lots of fish eat plastic and then die off. Lots of poluted beaches are losing fish due to plastic bags.

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This evidence shows how plastic bags effect the ocean and marine life living in it. Also how beaches are effected with all of this plastic.

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When people are careless people just throw there plastic in the sea and that can cause sea animals to die

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plastic bags have a bad effect on the environment because they cause pollution. source: none

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" On land, Plastic bags are encore, they get stuck in trees, along with fences , and parks.

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From "Plastic Pollution" in Britannica school, plastic is a problem for the environment and different and aquatic animals.

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The average american uses approximately 1,500 plastic bags a year. About a total of 70 billion to 100 billion gets used a year and only 5% of it gets recycled. Most of the plastic gets into the ocean, then sea creatures die from either entanglement or ingesting. Stores are being encouraged to make people recycle plastic bags by providing even more recycling bins in the store.

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This Evidences shows how plastic bags have not just effect the sea but it also effects the environment outside of the sea.

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From SIRS Discovery writer, plastic bags should not be banned and people should keep plastic bags.

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Plastic bags don't even make up a third of  pollution in water. More waste and other substances get littered and end up in the ocean. Most aquatic sea creatures die from not only many different fishing equipment such as fishing nets and fishing hooks, but lost of trash, soil, and oil pollutes the ocean as well.

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The plastic bags break down and pollute the ocean and it is bad

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the tax impacted be making the amount of bags drop by 30%
Source: huge drop in plastic bags after 5p charge.

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in the last couple of years the bag amount dropped from 7.6 billion to 63 million.

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There are a lot of plastic bag solutions. For example big organizations could stop using plastic bag and use paper or reusable bags.

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If big organizations started using paper or  reusable bags then it could influence other people who look up to these organizations to do the same.

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Multiple countries are aware of the plastic bag problem and are acting in different ways.

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Montgomery county could use other strategies to deal with the plastic bag problem instead of a five cent tax for one bag that is 20 bags for only one dollar

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From the article "How do plastic bags harm our environment and sea life" by Curious Kids, plastic can smother corals and other sea bed comunities. When people don't reycle, there plastic bags get carried by the wind to the chesipeke bay watershed and get caught around the necks of different sea birds and animals.

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The  UN guesses that if we don't stop using plastic bags then by 2050 there will be more plastic than fish in the oceans.

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All of the pollution in the oceans makes sea turtles think that plastic bags are jellyfish

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from article, "plastic is polluting the Earth" waste is contaminating the watershed.

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According to

Montgomery County Department of Environmental Protection, the plastic bag tax just makes people pay more for plastic bags instead of encouraging customers to use reusable bags.

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From Sirs writer, he states using plastic bags aren't bad but to much will ruin the environment. Stores should provide more recycling bins to encourage more customers to recycle their plastic and paper carry out bag. If more people will recycle plastic bags, it won't destroy the environment.

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from article, "Plastic Peril" the plastic does not degrade and makes the watershed bad

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Although the tax for plastic bags is working, not much is there still hundreds of tons of plastics bags in Montgomery county waterways.

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an estimate of 5.13 million to of plastic enter our ocean each year from land-based sources

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From the article "Serious Effects of Plastic Pollution on human health"  by green tube editorial team, it states that plastic bags have been found inside fish make them look like jelly fish. Birds whales ans sea turtles mistake them for food. Whe the birds whales and sea turtles do this the get get sick and suficate to death by the plastic bags. Plastic consuming can also come back to hurt us. The fish we eat may contain plastic bits. This will make us very sick and even make us have a change in our way of life.