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Hurley, V.H.  (2011, June 13). Area kids and businesses fighting plastic bags. Central Jersey Local NJ News, retrieved on June 16, 2011, from http://www.centraljersey.com/articles/2011/06/13/the_princeton_packet/news/doc4df6a2a515d5f259160780.txt

  Summary:

              According to this article, Sustainable Princeton’s BYOBag is a campaign that launched Thursday evening. This campaign is going to change people's habit of using plastic bags and the world. Reusable bags are very good for our environment and for businesses in the same time. Lorrie Janick, a businessman, created a new idea offers recyclable garment bags for customers, and people like it. Hence, people help this campaign by many ways such as downtown businesspeople help by putting their garments on the counter, and some people help by using the same bag many times. There are many companies encourage their customers and their employees by giving them money for each bag they bring it for the company, or they use it over and over. This campaign educates customer and merchants, because the impact of a merchant is stronger than the impact of a customer. However, there are many countries banned the use of plastic bags, and some countries taxed it. Anyway, children have good and easy ways how to use plastic bags.

Reaction:

        No doubt those plastic bags are very bad, but we use it daily to carry our stuff and food. In my mind, I thought that plastic bag just a small bag; it can't affect our environment, but when I read article, I just knew what they were talking about. I understood that plastic bags will change our life in the future, and our children's lives. However, I am so glad that I will be a chemical engineering soon  because chemical engineering can save the enviro-nment! Chemical engineering can make many things more environmentally friendly. Additionally, Chemical engineering can make medicine to help patients. Therefore, in the future, I can help a lot of people and my environment in the same time. Maybe I will make an environmentally friendly new thing that we can use it instead of a plastic bag to carry our stuff, or maybe I will discover how to make plastic useful. I really would like to be a chemical engineering because in the chemical engineer you have the ability to discover a good and recent thing that basically will help your environment.