Why use biodegradable plastic bags?

Why use biodegradable plastic bags?

1. Alleviate land resources

In the history of mankind, plastic bags are too convenient and easy to use, and people have always been inseparable from plastic bags in daily life. The convenience of plastic bags has led people to forget that the original intention of plastic bags was not disposable, and they are often thrown away once they are used up. But many people don’t know that the main raw material for the production of plastic bags is polyethylene, which is very difficult to decompose. A large number of discarded plastic bags are buried underground, which will cause large areas of land to be occupied for a long time because of the burying of plastic bags. This is " White pollution". When the plastic bags used by people are replaced with biodegradable plastic bags, this problem is easily solved. Compared with the original polyethylene plastic bags, it is very difficult to degrade. The degradable plastic bags can be completely degraded in only a few months, which greatly alleviates the waste of land resources.

2. Reduce carbon emissions

Compared with traditional plastic bags, biodegradable plastic bags are worthy of praise, and that is carbon dioxide emissions. Degradable plastics release less carbon dioxide during the degradation process than traditional plastics, because degradable plastic bags are not made of polyethylene, which releases about 2 kilograms of carbon dioxide less than traditional plastics.

3. Reduce energy consumption

Plastic bags will consume fossil fuels in the production process, and biodegradable plastic bags will reduce fossil fuels by almost half. For example, if all plastic products in the world are replaced with biodegradable plastic bags in one year, almost 1.3 billion barrels of fossil fuel can be saved this year. This amount of savings almost accounts for part of the global fossil fuel consumption.

Plastic bags may be a "necessity" in people's daily life, but biodegradable plastic bags can turn them into replaceable products. In order to make the environment more pleasant, biodegradable plastic bags are essential.