Embargo Act 1807
Newspaper Name: Plastic should be saved ( give credit to me this is my work i submitted to my teacher)
Reporter: YOU
Date 5/11/2023
Imagine you’re at the movie theater watching your favorite movie but you have a paper straw and when you try to sip on your drink your straw is soggy! Now you can’t even drink it because it is expanding because of how much of your drink is now inside of the straw. The importance of plastic is it helps us with everyday things like groceries or straws. But if you have ever carried a paper bag they are not strong at all. Plastic is better than paper in ways paper should not be used like bags or straws. It is also the same thing with littering people litter paper, but no one has ever said “Should paper be banned?”
Well the first reason why plastic bags and straws should not be banned is because we need plastic because having paper straws is weird and having paper bags is not weird but they are weak. The only reason why people are saying this is because plastic is everywhere and they are not lying but then again that’s their fault because of why plastic is everywhere. It even says here on this website that when we recycle we are not very good at it while on the entire earth having 8 metric tons of plastic coming into neighborhoods and ecosystems. Why people say plastic must be banned we won’t know if they keep littering.
Another reason why plastic should not be banned is because after its banned how are we going to carry a lot of groceries without them ripping through the bag? Or how will we drink through paper straws? “Why can’t we just ban all plastic packaging?” It says, “plastic is durable it does not shatter like glass or disintegrate like paper.” Imagine having a glass or paper bag. Or s glass or paper straw. It would be a lot harder to do things - regardless of knowing glass works with straws - if plastic was banned. It also says ” If plastic packaging is banned alternative packaging materials need to be used. Right now, paper, glass, or aluminum can’t perform many of the function’s plastic does” This means that if we ban plastic we would have to find a better or just as good alternative that’s healthy for the environment. My clam is that if we ban plastic bags or straws we will need to find a better alternative to see whether or not it can replace plastic, and so far nothing can replace plastic.
Why can’t we just ban all plastic packaging? – Clear on Plastics
Ok I hope this helps