We think that Montgomery County should provide more recycling bins outside of stores, so that 80% watershed pollution will go away. by Nashiyah Pearson https://padlet.com/1436012/6zw6l9em2nds Made with a wish on a star en-us 2018-11-16 13:58:15 UTC 2026-01-25 02:21:18 UTC hello@padlet.com Evidence1 1302331 https://padlet.com/1436012/6zw6l9em2nds/wish/305246327 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.]]> 2018-11-16 14:01:31 UTC https://padlet.com/1436012/6zw6l9em2nds/wish/305246327 reasoning 1302331 https://padlet.com/1436012/6zw6l9em2nds/wish/305246429 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. ]]> 2018-11-16 14:01:43 UTC https://padlet.com/1436012/6zw6l9em2nds/wish/305246429 Evidence 2 1302331 https://padlet.com/1436012/6zw6l9em2nds/wish/305246503 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.]]> 2018-11-16 14:01:54 UTC https://padlet.com/1436012/6zw6l9em2nds/wish/305246503 Evidence 1 Curious Kids 1436012 https://padlet.com/1436012/6zw6l9em2nds/wish/305246504 " When we dump plastic in the sea turtles and other animals mistaken plastic bags for food"]]> 2018-11-16 14:01:55 UTC https://padlet.com/1436012/6zw6l9em2nds/wish/305246504 reasoning 1302331 https://padlet.com/1436012/6zw6l9em2nds/wish/305246576 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.]]> 2018-11-16 14:02:02 UTC https://padlet.com/1436012/6zw6l9em2nds/wish/305246576 Reasoning 1436012 https://padlet.com/1436012/6zw6l9em2nds/wish/305246627 When people are careless people just throw there plastic in the sea and that can cause sea animals to die ]]> 2018-11-16 14:02:09 UTC https://padlet.com/1436012/6zw6l9em2nds/wish/305246627 Evidence 1 130450 https://padlet.com/1436012/6zw6l9em2nds/wish/305247013 plastic bags have a bad effect on the environment because they cause pollution. source: none]]> 2018-11-16 14:03:00 UTC https://padlet.com/1436012/6zw6l9em2nds/wish/305247013 Evidence 2 Curious Kids 1436012 https://padlet.com/1436012/6zw6l9em2nds/wish/305247023 " On land, Plastic bags are encore, they get stuck in trees, along with fences , and parks. ]]> 2018-11-16 14:03:01 UTC https://padlet.com/1436012/6zw6l9em2nds/wish/305247023 Evidence 1 466510 https://padlet.com/1436012/6zw6l9em2nds/wish/305247068 From "Plastic Pollution" in Britannica school, plastic is a problem for the environment and different and aquatic animals.]]> 2018-11-16 14:03:07 UTC https://padlet.com/1436012/6zw6l9em2nds/wish/305247068 Reasoning - 1 466510 https://padlet.com/1436012/6zw6l9em2nds/wish/305247154 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. ]]> 2018-11-16 14:03:17 UTC https://padlet.com/1436012/6zw6l9em2nds/wish/305247154 Reasoning 1436012 https://padlet.com/1436012/6zw6l9em2nds/wish/305247255 This Evidences shows how plastic bags have not just effect the sea but it also effects the environment outside of the sea.]]> 2018-11-16 14:03:26 UTC https://padlet.com/1436012/6zw6l9em2nds/wish/305247255 Evidece 2 466510 https://padlet.com/1436012/6zw6l9em2nds/wish/305247304 From SIRS Discovery writer, plastic bags should not be banned and people should keep plastic bags.]]> 2018-11-16 14:03:32 UTC https://padlet.com/1436012/6zw6l9em2nds/wish/305247304 Reasoning - 2 466510 https://padlet.com/1436012/6zw6l9em2nds/wish/305247906 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.]]> 2018-11-16 14:04:50 UTC https://padlet.com/1436012/6zw6l9em2nds/wish/305247906 Reasoning 1 130450 https://padlet.com/1436012/6zw6l9em2nds/wish/305249373 The plastic bags break down and pollute the ocean and it is bad]]> 2018-11-16 14:06:55 UTC https://padlet.com/1436012/6zw6l9em2nds/wish/305249373 Evidence 2 130450 https://padlet.com/1436012/6zw6l9em2nds/wish/305249927 the tax impacted be making the amount of bags drop by 30%
Source: huge drop in plastic bags after 5p charge.]]> 2018-11-16 14:08:00 UTC https://padlet.com/1436012/6zw6l9em2nds/wish/305249927 Reasoning 2 130450 https://padlet.com/1436012/6zw6l9em2nds/wish/305909405 in the last couple of years the bag amount dropped from 7.6 billion to 63 million.]]> 2018-11-19 13:49:06 UTC https://padlet.com/1436012/6zw6l9em2nds/wish/305909405 Evidence 1 : SIRS knowledge source 475266 https://padlet.com/1436012/6zw6l9em2nds/wish/305910636 There are a lot of plastic bag solutions. For example big organizations could stop using plastic bag and use paper or reusable bags.]]> 2018-11-19 13:51:37 UTC https://padlet.com/1436012/6zw6l9em2nds/wish/305910636 Reasoning 1 475266 https://padlet.com/1436012/6zw6l9em2nds/wish/305910746 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.]]> 2018-11-19 13:51:50 UTC https://padlet.com/1436012/6zw6l9em2nds/wish/305910746 Evidence 2 : SIRS knowledge source 475266 https://padlet.com/1436012/6zw6l9em2nds/wish/305910824 Multiple countries are aware of the plastic bag problem and are acting in different ways.]]> 2018-11-19 13:51:56 UTC https://padlet.com/1436012/6zw6l9em2nds/wish/305910824 Reasoning 2 475266 https://padlet.com/1436012/6zw6l9em2nds/wish/305911015 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]]> 2018-11-19 13:52:19 UTC https://padlet.com/1436012/6zw6l9em2nds/wish/305911015 Picture 1 130450 https://padlet.com/1436012/6zw6l9em2nds/wish/305916205 2018-11-19 14:01:56 UTC https://padlet.com/1436012/6zw6l9em2nds/wish/305916205 Picture 2 130450 https://padlet.com/1436012/6zw6l9em2nds/wish/305917373 2018-11-19 14:04:05 UTC https://padlet.com/1436012/6zw6l9em2nds/wish/305917373 Picture 3 130450 https://padlet.com/1436012/6zw6l9em2nds/wish/305918950 2018-11-19 14:06:45 UTC https://padlet.com/1436012/6zw6l9em2nds/wish/305918950 Evidence 3 1302331 https://padlet.com/1436012/6zw6l9em2nds/wish/315508929 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.]]> 2018-12-18 13:46:39 UTC https://padlet.com/1436012/6zw6l9em2nds/wish/315508929 Evidence 3 475266 https://padlet.com/1436012/6zw6l9em2nds/wish/315509466 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.]]> 2018-12-18 13:47:48 UTC https://padlet.com/1436012/6zw6l9em2nds/wish/315509466 Evidence 4 475266 https://padlet.com/1436012/6zw6l9em2nds/wish/315509519 All of the pollution in the oceans makes sea turtles think that plastic bags are jellyfish ]]> 2018-12-18 13:47:56 UTC https://padlet.com/1436012/6zw6l9em2nds/wish/315509519 Evidence 3 130450 https://padlet.com/1436012/6zw6l9em2nds/wish/315509618 from article, "plastic is polluting the Earth" waste is contaminating the watershed.]]> 2018-12-18 13:48:12 UTC https://padlet.com/1436012/6zw6l9em2nds/wish/315509618 Evidence 3 466510 https://padlet.com/1436012/6zw6l9em2nds/wish/315509718 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.


]]> 2018-12-18 13:48:27 UTC https://padlet.com/1436012/6zw6l9em2nds/wish/315509718 Evidence 4 466510 https://padlet.com/1436012/6zw6l9em2nds/wish/315509767 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. ]]> 2018-12-18 13:48:35 UTC https://padlet.com/1436012/6zw6l9em2nds/wish/315509767 Evidence 4 130450 https://padlet.com/1436012/6zw6l9em2nds/wish/315511313 from article, "Plastic Peril" the plastic does not degrade and makes the watershed bad ]]> 2018-12-18 13:52:39 UTC https://padlet.com/1436012/6zw6l9em2nds/wish/315511313 Evidence 3 1436012 https://padlet.com/1436012/6zw6l9em2nds/wish/315513901 Although the tax for plastic bags is working, not much is there still hundreds of tons of plastics bags in Montgomery county waterways.]]> 2018-12-18 13:58:54 UTC https://padlet.com/1436012/6zw6l9em2nds/wish/315513901 Evidence 4 1436012 https://padlet.com/1436012/6zw6l9em2nds/wish/315515905 an estimate of 5.13 million to of plastic enter our ocean each year from land-based sources ]]> 2018-12-18 14:03:27 UTC https://padlet.com/1436012/6zw6l9em2nds/wish/315515905 evidence 4 1302331 https://padlet.com/1436012/6zw6l9em2nds/wish/315516151 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.

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