Environment

THE PLASTIC BAGS (PROHIBITION) BILL; ISSUES FOR DELIBERATION BEFORE ITS ENACTMENT.

THE PLASTIC BAGS (PROHIBITION) BILL; ISSUES FOR DELIBERATION BEFORE ITS ENACTMENT.

The incidence of environmental pollution through the inappropriate disposal of plastic bags and its attendant consequences to the environment and human life cannot be over-emphasized.

Research has shown that a single plastic bag could take up to at least a hundred years to at most a thousand years to fully degrade or get decomposed. The effects of this becomes that they get stuck in the soil, thus releasing toxic chemical substances (phythalate acid) that deteriorate the soil’s quality.