Top Facts About Plastic Bags

Each year, an estimated 500 billion to 1 trillion plastic bags are consumed worldwide. That comes out to over one million per minute. Billions end up as litter each year. According to the EPA, over 380 billion plastic bags, sacks and wraps are consumed in the U.S. each year. According to The Wall Street Journal, the U.S. goes through 100 billion plastic shopping bags annually. Estimated cost to retailers is $4 billion. Hundreds of thousands of sea turtles, whales and other marine mammals die every year from eating discarded plastic bags mistaken for food. In 2001, Ireland consumed 1.2 billion plastic bags, or 316 per person. An extremely successful plastic bag consumption tax, or PlasTax, introduced in 2002 reduced consumption by 90%. Approximately 18,000,000 liters of oil have been saved due to this reduced production. Governments around the world are considering implementing similar measures.

Saturday, April 19, 2008

China Move To Ban Plastic Bag.

"China starts shopping bag charges under ‘Plastic Bag Ban’" written by Trina Tan, was the headline in an online news portal on 8th April 2004. China a country with billions of people is now aware that plastic bags usages in the country is not good for its people and the environment. Some provinces in China has started to enforced a total ban on plastic bag usages while other provinces make it compulsory that plastic bag as not to be given free so to educate the people not to overuse plastic bags and switch to reusable environmentally friendly bag. Below is part of the story I took from packwebasia.com


www.packwebasia.com
By Trina Tan
"CHINA – Under China's ‘Plastic Bag Ban’ retailers are obliged to impose charges for the supply of plastic shopping bags. Although the Law doesn't become effective until 1 June 2008, Tianjin province, in northeast China, has launched the country’s first pilot project to charge consumers for plastic shopping bags at major supermarket outlets. This is in advance of the 1 June 2008 implementation deadline for the Plastic Shopping Bag Law which bans the production, all retail outlets from handing out free plastic shopping bags."

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My 2-cents: This is not good enough. We need them to punish those people who use plastic bags.

Posted by Sunduvan at 8:24 AM
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