Plastic bags should be banned persuasive writing.

PLASTIC BAGS PERSUASIVE WRITING.
It is not biodegradable 
Sea creatures can choke on it by thinking that it is Jelly fish
It can pollute the environment and waterways. 

Although not everybody would agree
that plastic bags should be banned,
I believe that plastic bags should be
banned because plastic bags pollute
our land and water. Since plastic bags
are so lightweight, they can travel long
distances by wind and water. They litter
our landscapes, get caught in fences and
trees, float around in waterways, and can
eventually make their way into the world's oceans.  

 I have several reasons for arguing my point
of view. Plastic bags tend to disrupt the environment
seriously. They get into soil and slowly release toxic
chemicals. They eventually break down into the soil,
with the unfortunate result being that animals eat them
and often choke and die. 

My third reason is that plastic bags are petroleum-based
and do not biodegrade. Sea turtles and other marine
creatures mistake plastics and other garbage as food
(such as jellyfish) and ingest it. This mistake causes
blockages within their digestive system and they eventually die.

Furthermore I would like to say that the impact of
plastic bags on the environment is enormous.
As of August 2010, between 500 billion and 1
\ trillion plastic bags are being used each year
worldwide. Approximately 100,000 sea turtles
and other marine animals die every year because
they either mistake the bags for food or get
strangled in them, according to Natural Environment. 

In Australia, 50 million garbage bags end up as
litter yearly, and the “plastic soup” patch floating
in the Pacific Ocean is twice the size of the continental
United States. It is roughly 80 percent plastic, according
to The Independent, a British newspaper. 

Over 1,000 turtles die each year just because of plastic
bags being not disposed of properly and going into
the drains and they travel to the ocean and then turtles
mistake them for Jellyfish and then they eat it and then it kills them. 

I would also like to say there are alternatives to plastic
bags, such as non biodegradable cloth bags which some
supermarkets have already started to provide you with.
Some of them are Countdown, Pak N Save, 4 Square and many more.

I strongly believe that plastic bags should be banned
and there are my reasons.
  
Hi Arman; this is a very good persuasive writing.
However,could you suggest to your readers as to
what could be the alternative to plastic bags. How about: reusable
cloth or paper bags. You could add this to your last paragraph.