Which of the following can be inferred from paragraphs 3 and 4 in the text? (Choose an answer choice from below.)

(2)Which sentence from the text PROVES that your answer is correct?

Plastic Bags Are a Huge Waste Problem and Should Be Banned Author: Marc Basnight
Editor: Margaret Haerens
Date: Jan. 1, 2012
The Outer Banks [in North Carolina] has always been a place where the people's livelihoods depended on the bounty of our land and our waters. Even as our community has grown and changed over the centuries, our reliance on our natural resources remains the same. Our commercial watermen, who bring in fresh seafood every day, need a healthy fishery to survive. Our small businesses, recreational industry, and tourism-based economy rely on clean water and beautiful beaches. For me, as for so many others who are fortunate to call this place our home, protecting these natural gifts is not an environmental issue—it is an economic one.
That concern for the economic well-being of our community, and for the health of our people, is what led me to last year's [2009's] law to reduce the use of plastic bags in the Outer Banks. The Outer Banks is in the business of looking good. Our natural beauty is a top reason that millions of people come here every year and support our economy. I have seen so many bags in our area, as I know you have—hanging in trees, from marsh grasses, and on our dune's sea oats. They flutter along in the wind and likely end up in our waters. At some point I began to wonder what effects these plastic bags were having on our environment—or if they posed no more harm than simply being an eyesore.
WHO - The Community/ civilians of the Outer banks
WHAT - plastic pollution (Plastic bags)
WHEN - 2009 - 2012
WHY - not sure why this is happening yet . . . The author is trying to inform us of the pollution problem and the new ban on plastic.
QUESTION:

Which of the following can be inferred from paragraphs 1 and 2 in the text?

Plastic pollution has been a problem in the Outer Banks for a long time.
The author of the article really cares about the environment
The tourists and civilians in the community may be improperly disposing of their trash.
The Outer Banks does not have enough trash cans to accommodate the tourists.
THE ENVIRONMENTAL CONSEQUENCES OF PLASTIC BAGS
I began to look into the issues of plastics and waste, and what I found was disturbing. In an area of the Pacific Ocean—nobody is sure of the exact size, but scientists say that it is certainly larger than our entire state—there is something called the [Great] Pacific Garbage Patch, consisting of billions upon billions of pieces of plastic, from microscopic size to chunks as big as a lawn chair. A 1999 study found six times more plastic than plankton in water samples of the Pacific Ocean. When I heard about large concentrations of plastic debris in the Atlantic as well, I began to fear for the health and future of our fisheries here at home.
Mayo Clinic already cautions us about fish that may be contaminated with mercury and other pollutants, and I fear that plastics could further contaminate our marine life. Plastic bags are made of high-density polyethylene and titanium chloride—or more simply put, complex carbons and transitional metal—and they break down into tiny pieces in the water. Scientists are currently studying the potential impacts these plastic materials and other chemicals could have on marine life and, later, to human health as a result of seafood consumption. And although we do not yet know for certain what these impacts will be to our fisheries, I would much rather err on the side of caution than to see our fisheries fall apart because of something that we could have stopped.
WE MUST