Introduction Paragraphs Plastic bags are a huge part of everyday life. Over a million bags are used every single day and trillions are thrown away yearly! This can seriously damage areas of land where the land divides, allowing easy accessibility for water to flow into bigger bodies of water, otherwise known as watersheds. The watershed that flows through Greeley, CO is the Cache la Poudre River Watershed (CPRW). Watersheds provide our drinking water, water for agriculture (such as farming) and even help with outdoor activities such as canoeing and fishing. Watersheds are often a habitat for most animals and help our plants. Watersheds get damaged every day, and people are a huge contribution to that problem. To understand how humans impact…show more content… The one huge drawback is that they damage the environment, and this includes our watersheds, the natural wildlife, and the plants that are significant to keeping the scientific circle of life going. Plastic bags affect our environment because they hold toxic chemicals that our soil absorbs, this can affect plants and creatures that live in the dirt, like worms that help plants grow. Most animals will consume plastic bags, assuming it is something edible and ingest those toxins. Lastly, let’s mention how the watershed gets affected. Sometimes, plastic bag can contain trash, which pollutes the watershed not only with the plastic and chemicals, but along with the trash in them and the chemicals that…show more content… They have become so crucial to today’s society that some places you even will have to pay 5 to 15 cents for them, some of these places include Boulder, Colorado, Brownsville, Texas, and even in our nation’s capital, Washington D.C. We can all avoid this problem simply by just switching to reusable bags. Most stores give you the option to pay for the reusable bags and you get to keep them, and be able to use them as often as you would like. This is a very cheap and very easy, quick solution that could immediately cut the percentage of plastic bags used. However, if you would like to, you could even DIY (do it yourself) your own bags for yourself or your community, but of course you have to provide materials for
