Why Reusable Bags?
(beside the fact that you look super cool when you do!)
A million plastic bags are used every minute worldwide.
In America alone, 12 million barrels of oil and 14 million trees go into producing paper and plastic bags every year.
Plastic bags are NOT biodegradable.
They clog waterways, spoil the landscape, and end up in landfills where they may take 1,000 years or more to break down into ever smaller particles that continue to pollute the soil and water.
Plastic bags also pose a serious danger to birds and marine mammals that often mistake them for food. Thousands die each year after swallowing or chocking on discarded plastic bags. ( I Know we live farther than any human should from the beach .... but I love to visit)
According to the Environmental Protection Agency, more than 380 billion plastic bags are used in the United States every year.
Of those, approximately 100 billion are plastic shopping bags, which cost retailers about $4 billion annually.
Why waste plastic bags?
Choose reusable bags!
Seriously if you pay more than .99 or $1 for them you are dumb .... one time cost ....
everlasting effect on the environment ....
CVS even has them now for .99 (you can even buy them with your EXTRA CARE BUCKS!)
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2 comments:
I'm a big believer in the reusable bags - great post!
my only challenge-the plastic bags save me from puking when i put the dirty diapers in them in the trash...that way every time i open the trash i don't smell them!
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