Go Green, Reusable Shopping Bags

(1) A plastic bag can take up anywhere from 15 to 1000 years to decompose. Ina compressed landfill a paper bag can take almost as long.

(2) It takes 12 million barrels of oil to produce the amount of plastic bags the US uses a year.

(3) In the US it takes 14 million trees per year to produce the amount of paper bags we use in a year.

(4) By using reusable bags just by one person will save about 22,000 plastic bags.

(5) Just in New York City, one less grocery bag per person would reduce waste by 5 million pounds and save $250,000 in disposal fees.

(6) According to Wall Street Journal, only 1% of plastic bags are recycled world wide.

(7) Fuel cost are already to high and to make plastic bags it takes petroleum products, natural gas and other non-renewable resources.

(8) The lifespan of a reusable bag is about 700 plastic bags.

(9) In the past few years over a dozen countries have banned or put a tax on disposable bags.

(10) Most recycling facilities dont take plastic bags because they have no value to them so they end up in the dump with all the other trash.

(12) Because of ingesting of discarded plastic bags hundreds of thousands of animals die each year.

(13) Toxins are released each day by companies that produce paper bags and plastic bags because it takes chemical to produce these items.



Disposable plastic and paper bags are everywhere. The average American uses around 6 per week. It is simple math 6 times 300 million people in the US and you see how much waste is accumilated just with these 2 items. So next time when you go to the store try to remember to bring reuseable bags.

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