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The environmental controversy is centered on waste and human health. It addresses the question, should consumers have to pay for plastic or paper bags at grocery and other stores? Using the references below, write a 1-2 pages response to the questions posed to you. Remember to cite your sources using APA.

After you read the following artiles, answer the questions:

Based on what you have read, do you believe that consumers should have to pay for plastic or paper bags at grocery and other stores? What arguments most influenced your decision? How would you explain your position to someone who disagrees with you?

Has contracted with a manufacturer to make kitchen bags, larger 40-gallon bags and dog poop bags. Each product is made with durable plastic and a chemical additive that activates once the bag is exposed to the methane

gases that develop in a typical landfill. She said there would be "zero" toxic residues as the bag breaks down.

"We've done some charity events in Hollywood, such as one for an animal shelter," Bicknell said. "People loved the dog pickup bags and the whole idea of biodegradable bags that are still strong enough to hold the garbage."

ANAHEIM--A future in plastics may be most closely associated with a line delivered to Dustin Hoffman's character in the 1967 movie "The Graduate," but Dodonna Bicknell is living her own 2003 version.

She has co-founded Planet Friendly Plastics, which debuted its product line of completely biodegradable plastic bags at last weekend's Natural Products Expo West in Anaheim.