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Northern Notes

Dispose Of Plastic Bags chain. No one can honestly say they
know for sure how long plastic debris
Properly – Not In Waterways lasts. Estimates range into hundreds
and even thousands of years.
By O’Neal Bardin Jr., Besides the environmental aspects
Executive Director, of plastic bags, they can cause damage
Northern Palm Beach to storm water drainage systems.
County Improvement Plastic bags clog storm drains
District and waterways, threatening urban
Americans use about environments and creating severe
100 billion plastic bags a safety hazards. Drainage systems
year. These include plastic blocked by plastic bags have been
grocery, shopping, food identified as a major cause of flooding
storage, yard fertilizer in countries like India and Bangladesh
and pet waste disposal during monsoon season. More locally,
bags. Plastic bags are so plastic bags can get caught and
lightweight and aerodynamic, that even if we dispose of damage aerator motors and storm
them properly, they can escape with the wind. They escape water pumps. Aerator maintenance
from our trash cans, garbage trucks and landfills and they costs are higher because of plastic bag debris. Storm them properly. Do not throw them in the waterways. This
go where the wind takes them – into storm drains, canals, water pumps need to function at optimal levels to provide not only pertains to shopping bags, but includes fertilizer
and lakes and eventually the ocean. Plastic bags remain proper drainage following rain events and storms. They are bags, pet waste disposal bags and food storage bags.
toxic even after they break down. They don’t biodegrade, critical to many of the storm water systems. If debris gets NPDES tip: Hurricane season began June 1. Make sure
they photodegrade. That means that after sunlight breaks caught in them, they can burn out and not work properly your yards and trees are trimmed neatly to avoid flying debris
them down; they degrade, breaking down into smaller when most needed. during a storm. Dispose of your trimmings and clippings
and smaller pieces, until it can ultimately enter the food If you choose to use plastic bags, please dispose of properly – do not put them into storm drains or lakes!

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