POST ONE: BATTLE OF THE BAG
This week, we are discussing the plastic bag and potential methods to minimize the environmental risks they pose. Questions: 1) What is one local effect or impact of plastic bag waste you observed in the video that you didn’t know about, hadn’t thought about before, or just found particularly interesting? There are plenty of scenes I could mention, but I think the most impactful one is the scene exposing the plight of Kenya. The scene best exemplifies why we perhaps feel uncomfortable when we see the catastrophic environmental effects of our collective actions - because we are actually seeing them. A numerical factoid is easy to forget or not fully understand. But when we see with our eyes the human and animal lives that are suffering because of our society's wastes, such as the Kenyans having to live in their own waste due to the "unbeatable convenience" and ultimate necessity of the plastic bag, suddenly the move to ban plastic bags outright becomes rather s...