In many countries, plastic shopping bags are the main type of rubbish. They cause water pollution and land pollution, so they should be banned. To what extent do you agree?

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In many countries, plastic shopping bags are the main type of rubbish. They cause water pollution and land pollution, so they should be banned. To what extent do you agree?

Plastic, in the forms of shopping bags, in general, caused a worldwide concern as the major source of polluter that pollutes land and water. Therefore, some suggest prohibiting the production and usages of plastic shopping bags. I somewhat disagree with this idea because the complete prohibition is rather a draconian solution whereas alternative solutions are readily available.

Undoubtedly, plastic shopping bags being the product of plastic which is non-biodegradable, are one of the primary source of land and water pollutions. Firstly, disposal of it into landfills leads to land pollutions because they might spread out from those to nearby human habitats due to natural phenomenon like strong winds, cyclones and floods. Secondly, disposing them into water sources such as Sewages and Canals also causes disruptions of water’s natural flows by stagnating waste into the flows which consequently result in polluting water. Finally, burning them, which releases toxic substances, for instance, CFCs, carbon-di-oxide and carbon-mono-oxide into the atmosphere, also stimulates air pollutions. Thus, banning the production and usages of it is the only way left to tackle land and water contaminations.

Despite this, to address the problem, rational and more effective alternatives still exist compared to the proposed one. Recycling of it rather than disposing to landfills combined with introduction of eco-friendly products such as jutes bags into the markets would be near ideal solution. Besides this, enlightening the masses by raising awareness among them about the usages and importance of environmentally friendly products with regards to protecting environment, would be another quantum leap towards solving the same. Furthermore, this issue could not be resolved by banning or reducing certain plastic products alone since there are other equally important sources of pollutants which also need simultaneous taking care. For examples, waste from constructions, households, industries and agricultures which plays dominant role to degrade land. Similarly, waste from factories, sewage, power plants, coal mines and oil refineries also plays a vital role in contaminating water. So, it would be foolish to expect something dramatic positive change to happen about the situation by prohibiting plastic bags alone if government fails to undertake pragmatic action to regulate pollution from those sources.

In conclusion, although plastic shopping bags admittedly one of the major polluter of land and water worldwide, prohibiting usages and production appear to be rather hard and fast approach to the problem. However, controlling usage and recycling of it combined with promotion of better alternatives would be the best solution to the problems.

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Average: 7.8 (1 vote)

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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, besides, consequently, finally, first, firstly, furthermore, however, if, second, secondly, similarly, so, still, therefore, thus, whereas, for example, for instance, in conclusion, in general, such as

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 13.1623246493 99% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 7.85571142285 89% => OK
Conjunction : 17.0 10.4138276553 163% => OK
Relative clauses : 6.0 7.30460921844 82% => OK
Pronoun: 17.0 24.0651302605 71% => OK
Preposition: 64.0 41.998997996 152% => OK
Nominalization: 15.0 8.3376753507 180% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2367.0 1615.20841683 147% => OK
No of words: 410.0 315.596192385 130% => OK
Chars per words: 5.77317073171 5.12529762239 113% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.49982852243 4.20363070211 107% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.07272644872 2.80592935109 110% => OK
Unique words: 241.0 176.041082164 137% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.587804878049 0.561755894193 105% => OK
syllable_count: 728.1 506.74238477 144% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.8 1.60771543086 112% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 5.43587174349 55% => OK
Article: 0.0 2.52805611222 0% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.10420841683 48% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.76152304609 126% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 16.0721442886 106% => OK
Sentence length: 24.0 20.2975951904 118% => OK
Sentence length SD: 41.8148828656 49.4020404114 85% => OK
Chars per sentence: 139.235294118 106.682146367 131% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.1176470588 20.7667163134 116% => OK
Discourse Markers: 12.1764705882 7.06120827912 172% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 8.67935871743 104% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 3.9879759519 125% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 3.4128256513 88% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.209619287675 0.244688304435 86% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0719604517161 0.084324248473 85% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0665369572728 0.0667982634062 100% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.139516260111 0.151304729494 92% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0247760763886 0.056905535591 44% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 17.8 13.0946893788 136% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 30.2 50.2224549098 60% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 15.0 11.3001002004 133% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 16.48 12.4159519038 133% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.99 8.58950901804 116% => OK
difficult_words: 134.0 78.4519038076 171% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 9.78957915832 112% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 10.1190380762 115% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 10.7795591182 111% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 78.6516853933 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 7.0 Out of 9
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