World paper bag day is celebrated on 12th July every year. It is celebrated because to stop using polythene and plastic bags because plastic bags take 500 years to decompose and it will be harmful for the environment , paper bags are called friend of the environment because paper bags can fight to plastic bags also could help the environment , paper bags can composed within a month or a fortnight , that’s why to save the environment ,Earth and save the life of the plants ,trees, animals a etc , everyone should use paper bags and avoid plastic bags and polythenes . The first inventor who discovered the paper bag was Francis Wolle . He was an American priest and an inventor of paper bag machines; he patented it in 1852 and named his company Union Bag or paper company. The next female who made the design of the paper bags was discovered by Margaret Knight and she named the company Columbia paper bags . Margaret Knight was an American inventor and she was also called Inventor Woman , in 1868 she made the machine and she patented it in 1870 , she invented the machine that could cut and stick the flat thick paper. On those days the paper bags were shaped like an envelope . Today there are varieties of paper bags such as Simple Brown Kraft paper bags, S.O.S bags , Simple grocery paper bags , baker paper bags , newspaper bags etc. There are very interesting and FUNNY facts of paper bags that are If we use recyclable paper bag then it has 50% oxygen in it because it is made from trees , the second one is why the paper bags have very light weight ? Because now there are very thin sheet or a layer of paper also paper has light weight that’s my paper bags have very lightweight, the third one is that if paper bag has thin sheet then why it is uneasy to tear the paper? Because some of the paper bags have a special or secret material that’s why it is uneasy to tear the paper , one is very interesting and there are only 1% people know it that there secret uses of it like that we can also make composed of soil with paper bags , it is used for making Popcorns in many ways , it can fresh breads and it will also cool varieties of snacks and breads etc . Anyway everyone should use paper bags and should make the environment pollution free. We should avoid plastic bags , polythenes and varieties of plastic bags . Paper bags have lots of importance and facts about it the reason it is celebrated only to say that use paper bags save our Environment , Earth , Animals , Birds beings and and plants save the also human country, continent and the world .
By Sanvi Bhotmange, MAHARASHTRA
