Plastic bag ban
These bags also cause direct harm to wildlife. Animals may be caught in these debris. As they cannot get away, they may either starve, or they drown, when the debris is washed into the sea. Another problem is that many animals cannot distinguish the small plasic pieces from food, and eat them. The debris then clog the animals' intestines, and may lead to the animal slowly starving.  Plastic bags can block drains, trap birds and kill livestock. The World Wide Fund for Nature has estimated that over 100,000 whales, seals, and turtles die every year as a result of eating or being trapped by plastic bags.  It is very common across Africa to have sewers and drain systems clogged by bags which cause severe cases of malaria due to the increased population of mosquitoes that live on the flooded sewers. The term "white pollution" has been coined in China to describe the local and global effects of discarded plastic bags upon the environment.