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.

Sunday, April 27, 2008

Expandable Reuseable Bags



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One of the most popular ecobags available in the market recently is Expandable Reuseable Bags which is very good for your shopping needs. With this bags you don't need plastic bags anymore. You can use it for a very long time as this design is quite durable. I use mine like 3 months already and it is still pretty strong. I think it is hight time now that everybody should get use to use ecobags for shopping. It is really disgusting to see people comes out from the supermarket plastic bags. Let us together save the earth. Stop using plastic bags.

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