"Biodegradable Plastic Bags, Not So Biodegradable"

by Vicky Stein

The average person uses a typical plastic bag for as short a time as 12 minutes before throwing it away, never thinking of where it may end up.

Yet once consigned to a landfill, that standard grocery store tote takes hundreds or thousands of years to break down — much more than a human lifetime. Bags make up an alarming amount of the plastic found in whale stomachs or bird nests, and it’s no wonder — globally, we use between 1 and 5 trillion plastic bags each year.

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Question
Use the article to answer the question.

Which section provides the most evidence supporting the need for new, improved biodegradable plastics?

(1 point)
Responses

“What the scientists found”
“What the scientists found”

“How biodegradable plastic bags don’t live up to their name”
“How biodegradable plastic bags don’t live up to their name”

“What the researchers did”
“What the researchers did”

“Why it matters”
“Why it matters”