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Use of plastic bags should be reduced as they cause problems. Write some of these problems caused by excessive use of plastic bags.


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Problems caused by plastic bags:

  1. We cannot dispose of plastic bags because they do not decompose on their own.
  2. When we throw plastic bags they might choke the drainage system and cause flood-like situations in city areas.
  3. Usually, we fill the garbage in plastic bags and throw it away. Straw animals eat these bags along with the food waste inside it. Sometimes they die due to eating these plastic bags.
  4. Packing vegetables in plastic bags enhance the dissolving of plastics in the food and spoils it.
  5. Plastic bags harmful gases on heating. These gases may cause health issues like cancer.

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