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However, many people don't realize the impact on sea animals

Myth.

Series of blunders turned the plastic bag into global villain

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I mean plastic in general. I want to go back to paper and aluminum dammit. The chemicals they release over the long term are not myth. The fact that they neither go away or stop tearing into ever smaller pieces is no myth either. Its not like carbon emissions here, we have a more economical answer already I believe, paper bags and aluminum cans.

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090804/us_nm/us_ocean_plastics

Read this. The plastic “island” is like half the size of Texas.