The Alabama Department of Environmental Management told WIAT 42 that they only test Smith Lake for e-coli, and that goes for all the other lakes in Alabama as well. With the recent fluctuation in weather, there is a strong possibility that lakes can back up with waste which in turn breeds bacteria.
Banning plastic bags harms humans in many ways. Plastic bags are a very useful part of our lives: - make it easy to carry a number of small items. - they are strong and lightweight. - they are cheap and disposable, so no problem if you lose one or can't find it.
Rumors went viral on the internet that plastic bags are manufactured from crude oils and around 12 million barrels of fuel are used by the plastic bag industry each year to meet the annual demand of plastic bags in the U.S.A. In reality, this is just a rumor as plastic bags have nothing to do with fuels. The actual fact is that the industrial name of plastic bags is polyethylene which is a polymer of ethylene, a by-product acquired from the natural gas refining industry.