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Paper or Plastic? Take a walk along the Chesapeake Bay， and you are likely to see plastic bags floating in the water.They have made their_______into local waterways and，from there，into the bay， where they can________wildlife.Piles of them show up in landfillsand on city streets.Plastic bags also take an environmental tollin the__________of millions of barrels of oil expended every year to produce them. Enter Annapolis and you will see plastic bags_______free in department stores and supermarkets.AldermanSam Shoeshine has introduced a well-meaning_______to ban retailers from distributing plastic shopping bags up MarylandS capital.Instead，retailers would be required to recycled paper and to sell reusable bags.The city of Baltimore.similar measure.Opponents of the are harmful，too：They cost more tothey_______，however_______bags made of________a argue that paper bags_______more resources to.transport，and recycling them causes more pollution than recycling plastic.The argument for depriving Annapolis residents Everyone in this _________their plastic bags is far from accepted________is right about one thing：Disposable shopping bags of any type are wasteful，and the best outcome would be for customers to ________bags instead.Annapolismayor is investigating how to hand out free，reusable shopping bags to city residents，a proposal that can proceed ________of whether other bags are banned.A less-expensive alternative would be to encourage retailers to give be more________to customers who bring their own reusable bags.And this policy would_________if stores imitated furniture megaretailerIkea and charged for disposable bags at the checkout counter.A broad ban on the use of plastic shopping bags is not the answer. | 
