Watching a documentary like that really gets you thinking about things you wouldn't even bat an eyelid at usually. Plastic bags are so common they are just a way of life really, but when you see the problems they cause you cant ignore them.
There were many impacts that the video stressed but the one that hit me was how plastic bags affected so many animals. The statistics were shocking, one being that 6 out of 10 animals in the slaughter house had plastic in them. The impact on marine life was eye opening when you consider that animals die simply because of carelessness on our part, basically you litter a plastic bag your killing an innocent animal for no reason.
The two main solutions were to use different materials or start recycling better. I think if we could recycle perfectly then there wouldn't be a problem but i think we know that's not going to happen, especially in developing countries that either don't have the resources to maintain recycling or the don't even have proper rubbish disposal systems. So i think we need to get rid of plastic bags and start using different materials and not only that we need to reuse bags more instead of getting a new one every time.
The Canadian manufacturer makes a good and true point that plastics bags are misunderstood but i don't have the faith in people that we would actually recycle well enough to stop plastic bags being a problem. To deal with plastic bag waste i think they should be completely banned from now and every bag should be sent to the same place, so the world can be cleared of plastic bags, they are too much of a problem. So i think its definitely a global problem and needs to be dealt with on a global scale.
Once again i believe if we keep using plastic bags and just say were going to recycle more the problem will never go away, we need drastic action to ban all plastic bags and start using a different material
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