“Plastic Bags in Bushes, in River, in Canal, and Everywhere!”

That’s what the three old men said to Jeb Berrier, the host of ‘Bag It’ documentary, when they were talking about the spread of plastic.

In this movie, Jeb told about the bad effects of using plastics for environments, people’s health, especially for pregnancy because it can cause premature birth and it can decrease anogenital distance for newborn babies. Plastic also causes many healthy problems, such as authism for children, diabetes, obesity, asthma, allergies and people will not guess that plastic could give negative effects for woman and man’s vital organ and the increasing of their functions, such as low sperm counts, decreased sperm motility, premature breast development, and even smaller penis size. He opened people’s eyes and minds, including me, not to use more plastics because everything has been made by plastic, household products and even electronics. 1 million plastic cups used on U.S. airlines flights every 6 hours and 2 million plastic bottles consumed in U.S. every 5 minutes. So would we make it again more? Me, and almost everybody I guess, have already known since along time ago about dangerous effects of using plastic for our lives especially for the environment, but people still do not stop using it, and plastic still can be found in almost all department stores for packing the purchase. It’s much cheaper, simpler, practice and easy to use. That’s the reason why many supermarkets still use it.

In ‘Bag It’ movie, when Jeb was going to buy vegetables and other household needs, he brought his purchase without any plastic. He did not want the cashier to give him plastics. He literally brought the purchases by his two hands.      

By watching this movie, I suddenly realized that plastics are everywhere, even when we are walking, we may see flying plastic, when we are visiting beach, we could see also many floating plastics there. In North Pacific Subtropical Gyre has been found a Great Pacific Garbage Patch  sized as Texas land. Algalita Marine Research Foundation found much more plastic than plankton to eat with 40:1 for the comparation there.

By many negative effects given from plastic, Jeb gave us advices in the end of the movie :

1         1. Less packaging

2         2. Bring your own market bag

3         3. Only buy what you need

4         4. Don’t drink bottled water

5         5. Reduce single-use

6         6. Reduce, reuse, then recycle

By following what written above, you have cleaned-up your life and this earth.