general such as polypropylene fabric
ECOLOGICAL BAGS bags
.
The word ecological bags collects several ideas
Ecological plastic bags: They are created
in which the common result is not to harm the
environment with the bags, create a culture of mainly with polyethylene to which salt is
recycling, preserve raw materials, be aware of added to break the molecular chains. In SOCIAL RESPONSABILITY
the good use that we can procure to the bags,
this way the environment can absorb its
encourage us to improve our planet and
ecosystem. As we say has several aspects the first waste. Resistant and functional, they REPLACE THE PLASTIC
of it we would be talking about the use of degrade with the sun's rays, water and BAGS FOR THE
materials that have been recycled to convert them
humidity. Its useful life? Maximum 24
into paper, plastic or fabric bags, in which the ECOLOGICAL BAGS
raw materials that compose them come from the months.
reuse of materials previously treated for their
later use as bags. MADE BY:
s el producto estrella de nuestra cultura de GALARZA SALAZAR, Mercedes
PACO MENDEZ, Maria Esther
VALENTIN CHAMBERGO, Katy
Types of bags
Ecological paper bags that come from old
paper, magazine papers, newspapers, old
cartons, packs, tetrabricks.
• Ecological fabric bags, in which the
synthetic fabric comes from the reuse of
the plastic PET of the bottles for the usar y tirar, que malgasta grandes
creation of a fiber with textile cantidades de materiales y energía p
appearance, is applied in different fields
of the fashion and textile industry in
laceration of the digestive tract and reduce the
UNNECESSARY USE OF PLASTIC We prepose
amount of food that animals can eat.
BAGS
• They are easily replaced by traditional systems:
cloth bags, carts, baskets, paper ... 1. Make a small effort from citizens,
Why stop using plastic bags? town halls, merchants' guilds and
Plastic bags contaminate and are not necessary: commercial chains to encourage
none is recycled. Consuming less and better, we
consumers and businesses to replace free
protect the environment Reasons to say no to
plastic bags: plastic bags with another type of
• They are manufactured from petroleum, a non- container that is more resistant and
renewable resource, costly, increasingly scarce durable.
and responsible for the emission of greenhouse
2. The voluntary substitution or
gases, that is, climate change.
• Recycling is not profitable: it costs 100 times collection agreements would be suitable
more to recycle than to produce new ones. to stop the generalized consumption of
• Most ends up in the sea or burned in
bags. But as it may be insufficient, we
incinerators and cement kilns. Bags have been
found floating north of the Arctic Circle and in also need decisive actions aimed at
remote parts of the South Atlantic. limiting the consumption of plastic bags.
• Contaminate during its manufacture and its
3. That the Government should take the
incineration (dioxins, cyanide ...).
• Some are printed with toxic inks. indiscriminate and free consumption of
• They take between 150 and 1000 years to plastic bags with an environmental tax
decompose. high enough to be dissuasive. That
• Its dispersion in nature causes mortality of
animals in the terrestrial and aquatic money would not profit the merchant but
environment. Turtles Dolphins or sperm whales, would invest in research and
for example, eat them because they are mistaken development of clean production
for jellyfish and squid. It is increasingly common
technologies that minimize the
to find them in corpses of marine animals
because they cause blockage, irritation or generation of waste and in mechanisms to
eliminate single-use bags.
