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.

Wednesday, April 23, 2008

Replacing The Golden Gate Bridge With Plastic Gate Bridge

I got an idea. Since it is so hard to educate people to stop using plastic bags we might be as well should replace the scenic Golden Gate Bride with Plastic Gate Bridge. Hey, I am not kidding. I am telling you a damn clear facts and truth. US has enough supply of plastic bags to replace the mighty San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge with plastic bags bridge. According to The Wall Street Journal, the U.S. goes through 100 billion plastic shopping bags annually. If you think 100 billion of plastic bags is not a problem then I would like to suggest to you to go to the Golden Gate Bridge and jump down off the bridge. We do not need people like you so ignorant and hard headed. Let see if the sea water down there can end your life or not. Seriously I am so damn mad every time I see people dumping plastic bags around like this earth is belong to him or her alone.




One other thing is probably we should decorate the mighty bridge with plastic wastes. We collect all the plastic bags and hang them on the bridge. This will probably can become an eye opener to the government to enforce a total ban on the use of plastic bags. Enough is enough!

Posted by Sunduvan at 2:48 AM
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God-Fate` said...

I hate people doing that. Dumping their garbage wrap in plastic bags all around town. Well i might vote for the new Bridge decoration of plastic bags waste if there is any poll.

April 24, 2008 at 10:36 AM

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