What are the environmental hazards of plastic bags?

1, waste plastic bags mixed in the soil continues to accumulate, will affect the crops to absorb nutrients and water, resulting in crop yield reduction, thus affecting the development of agriculture, leading to soil pollution.

2. Waste plastic bags discarded on land or in water bodies are swallowed by animals as food, which may lead to the death of animals and pose a threat to their survival.

3, waste plastic bags with landfill will not only occupy a large amount of land, and the occupied land is not restored for a long time, affecting the sustainable use of land. And waste plastic products in domestic garbage can not be degraded if they are landfilled for 2 years, damaging the environment.

Expanded knowledge: plastic bags are made of plastic (commonly used plastics such as polypropylene, polyester, nylon, etc.) as the main raw material of the bag with a certain capacity, is essential to people's daily life, often used to load other items. Because of its cheap, extremely light weight, large capacity and other advantages are widely used, but also because of the plastic bag degradation cycle is extremely long, difficult to deal with the shortcomings of some countries to ban the production and use.