More Plactic Bag Stats....

• Four to five trillion plastic bags are manufactured each year
• As many as one trillion [1,000,000,000,000] plastic bags are used annually worldwide and only 1% of these are recycled
• Plastic bags are made from polyethylene, which is a thermoplastic made from crude oil. In China, people use billions of plastic bags and their ban on free plastic bags will save them over 37 million barrels of oil annually!
• It takes 1,000 years for polyethylene bags to break down
• As polyethylene breaks down, toxic substances leach into the soil and enter the food chain
• Plastic bags account for 10% of all coastline debris in the U.S.
• Eight million pounds of plastic end up in our oceans killing our wildlife to the tune of approximately one billion seabirds and mammals. These animals suffer a painful death.
• Plastic bags choke landfills
• If one out of five people in North America convert from plastic bags to reusable cloth totes, it will save our environment from the damage of 1.3 trillion [1,300,000,000,000] plastic bags in our lifetime

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[Agricultural products]

There is one simple action we can all take that will have an enormous impact on the health of our planet and its inhabitants. The next time you shop, don't leave the store carrying a plastic bag. If everyone did this, one of the most lethal polluters created by man would be removed from circulation.
Countries all over the world are slowly becoming aware of the threat plastic bags present to our world. Many have enacted laws aimed to decrease the use of plastic bags, while others have, or are, planning to impose taxes on the use of plastic bags.

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