The Plastic Bag
The Plastic Bag After watching the video Battle of the Bags, I learned about an effect that involved plastic bags that I didn’t know about until now. In the video, they were discussing the plastic bag issue in Nairobi. They explained how people used plastic bags as toilets and threw them into the street. They did this because there was little plumbing and very few toilets in the community in Nairobi, so they used plastic bags as makeshift toilets. The effect of this is when they throw the plastic bags in the sewers, they clog up waterways and the plastic bags saturated in waste sit there. This can cause the perfect breeding ground for diseases, like malaria. Along with the increased risk for disease, plastic bags are cutting off the water supply to people in the community and contaminating it, so they can’t drink from that water or use it for other essential needs. Another effect of plastic bags is that the land can’t be used anymore because of the mixture of soil and plastic. So,...