When I am driving through Miami, I tend to look at the window a lot. I contemplate what's passing by me. I have seen interesting expressways roads that I have no idea where they lead to, I have seen a variety of restaurants from different cultures such as “La Carreta” (Cuban), “Delicias de España” (Spanish) and my all time favorite “Green Papaya” (Vietnamese). I have seen hotels and business buildings, and I have also see a lot of flying plastic bags.
This flying plastic bags are branded by different places: Walmart, Sedanos (Spanish Supermarket), JcPenney, etc. To me, they seem to be going nowhere. One time I decided to walk around my neighborhood. The day was very dry and windy, but not cold. As I was walking, I encountered this plastic bag flying in the air. This flying bag had no sense of where it was going, but somehow it found an old tree’s branch and made its home. I did not think too much of it so I just kept on walking. As I continue to walk, I approach this very small park with a few kids playing and their parents watching. I see the parents giving something to eat to their kids that came in a plastic bag. While they were eating their snacks, I see the adults throw away this plastic bags in the open air. I was very upset when I saw that happen. I couldn’t believe I had watched them …show more content…
Whenever the flying plastic bags are going around our city finding a place to stay, they never leave. It takes a long time for them to decompose and if they do, they end up damaging our soil even more or poisoning the food we eat. We are taking the risk of having animals that we eat, such as fish choke on such plastic and contaminate the rest of the fish population. An example of this is one of the biggest canals located in the heart of Miami called Seybold Canal. Jenny Staletovich, journalist from Miami Herald wrote an article on this polluted canal. She