https://padlet.com/jxm210/qnqzx02pmayy Enough is enough, it's time for us to think about our environment, by keeping it clean, and protecting our animals. en-us 2016-09-08 15:11:02 UTC 2024-10-25 06:19:02 UTC hello@padlet.com jxm210 https://padlet.com/jxm210/qnqzx02pmayy/wish/122476086 Plastic bags are 100% recyclable, but the majority of people don't even recycle the bags. Instead people throw them away to the trash. According to a resource, plastic bags can end up being in trees, or animals might thing that they are some kind of  food. Later on those dirty plastic bags go into our oceans.]]> 2016-09-08 15:28:12 UTC https://padlet.com/jxm210/qnqzx02pmayy/wish/122476086 jxm210 https://padlet.com/jxm210/qnqzx02pmayy/wish/122617652 Plastic bags aren't really easy to get rid of on landfills or in bodies of water such as lakes, oceans, ponds. Source #2 informs us that it can take 20 to 1,000 years to get rid of. So even if we try our best and do as much as we can we will never get rid of plastic bags 100%. ]]> 2016-09-08 23:53:57 UTC https://padlet.com/jxm210/qnqzx02pmayy/wish/122617652 jxm210 https://padlet.com/jxm210/qnqzx02pmayy/wish/122620624 We all love sea turtles and all other types of turtles! What if one day they are gone, no more sea turtles to see at the beach. In source #1 it informs us that animals that eat plastic can starve, they can get injured, and choke. A study in 2001 explained that 68% of turtles ate some type of plastic, including a lot of plastic bags. Sea turtles think that plastic bags are jellyfish causing them to eat them, hurting their-selves. ]]> 2016-09-09 00:25:16 UTC https://padlet.com/jxm210/qnqzx02pmayy/wish/122620624 jxm210 https://padlet.com/jxm210/qnqzx02pmayy/wish/122777657 Plastic Bags end up in our oceans, endangering turtles, because turtles think that plastic bags are jellyfishes causing them to eat them.]]> 2016-09-09 15:22:31 UTC https://padlet.com/jxm210/qnqzx02pmayy/wish/122777657 jxm210 https://padlet.com/jxm210/qnqzx02pmayy/wish/122778037 Although plastic bags are 100% recyclable, and there is 30,000 public locations where you can recycle your bags. People still don't recycle because they just don't care about the environment , or they just don't have time.]]> 2016-09-09 15:23:23 UTC https://padlet.com/jxm210/qnqzx02pmayy/wish/122778037 jxm210 https://padlet.com/jxm210/qnqzx02pmayy/wish/123228988 People that are against the plastic bag ban say paper bags take up 9.3 more space in our landfills,  although they take up more space plastic bags take more than 100 years to decompose.]]> 2016-09-12 17:26:04 UTC https://padlet.com/jxm210/qnqzx02pmayy/wish/123228988 jxm210 https://padlet.com/jxm210/qnqzx02pmayy/wish/123233201 Hundreds of plastic bags end up near the beach or near water. Later on those plastic bags pile up, making other animals such as birds, fishes, and other animals eat them, or kill them. ]]> 2016-09-12 17:33:48 UTC https://padlet.com/jxm210/qnqzx02pmayy/wish/123233201