The threat of plastic bags

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We easily get a plastic bag when shopping at markets, supermarkets, shop, or store becomes a threat for the environment. We are not alone, worldwide; between 500 billion to 1 trillion plastic bags are used each year.

Not all of them recycled, even plastic bags can take hundreds of years to disintegrate. Most plastic bags end up in the oceans, polluting the sea as well as channel and source of water.

Accidentally swallowed by mammals and animals that depend on marine ecosystem in search of food. Each year there are one million sea mammals, reptiles, and birds die because of plastic.

Plastic bags are also a threat for animals on the land. Kliwon, African giraffe at the Surabaya Zoo, Indonesia, died with a plastic blob weighing 18 kg in the stomach.

Plastic bags are very difficult to decompose naturally, it took hundreds of years to disappear from the Earth, and the number of plastic bags that become litter and endanger marine ecosystems, it is proper we reduce the use of plastic bags.

To solve the problem, we must look for its roots. So actually, what makes it so easy to use plastic bags? Why we are hard to escape from the plastic bag? And what we are capable of making the switch from plastic bags?