大部分塑料在自然下难以分解，焚化亦会带来空气污染的问题，所以由塑料制成的塑料袋亦如是，也因此时代杂志评选的“50大最糟发明”，塑料袋也榜上有名，这是因为人类自私的随意丢弃塑料袋的后果。

　　尤其塑料袋被广泛使用，因此环保组织都关注于塑料袋。

　　Plastic bags are widely used in particular, so environmental protection organization focused on plastic bags.

　　现时减少使用塑料袋是其中一个减少塑料袋对环境影响的方法，例如香港有环保团体在2006年起定期举行无塑料袋日，鼓励市民减少使用，更于2009年7月7日实于征收塑料袋环保征费，以减少塑料袋的使用；

　　Now to reduce use of plastic bags is one of the method to reduce the environmental impact of plastic bags, such as Hong Kong environmental groups are held regularly since 2006, no plastic bag day, to encourage citizens to use less, more in July 7, 2009, in a green plastic bags levy, in order to reduce the use of plastic bags;

　　有国家开始征收塑料袋税，以达致减少人民使用塑料袋。

　　Countries started to levy a tax on plastic bags, in order to achieve reduce people's use of plastic bags.

　　另外塑料袋亦开始用被认为环保的[1]其他物料制造的袋代替，例如纸袋、环保购物袋，和以生物可分解塑料制造的塑料袋等。不过上述物料成本较塑料袋高，故大部分地方仍主要使用塑料袋。

　　In addition also began to use plastic bags is considered environmentally friendly bags instead of [1] other materials manufacturing, paper bag, environmental shopping bag, for example, and the biodegradable plastics manufacturing plastic bags and so on. Although plastic bags the material cost is high, so most of the place is still the main use of plastic bags.