Assertion: plastic bag's impact | /r/CapableOf | start in late 1990s
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text: But starting in the late 1990s, the environmental impact of these flyaway bags could no longer be ignored, as the plastic filled the trees, littered city streets and beaches, and even created an entire continent — the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a floating island of plastics trash that has been estimated to span almost eight million square miles, or twice the size of the United States.