Remember this…..a recent ramble? Well… here is an update: Sam and I are currently plastic bag free. Four recycled bags = one shopping cart full, which totaled $118. We don’t even have to fold down the seats in the MINI to load the groceries…they fit snug in the trunk. We probably saved 25 to 30 plastic bags!
Now that’s GREEN
The following facts were taken from here:
-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.
-Hundreds of thousands of whales, dolphins, sea turtles and other marine mammals die every year after eating discarded plastic bags they mistake for food.
-An estimate 500 billion to 1 trillion plastic bags are consumed and discarded annually worldwide—more than a million per minute.
Food for thought: this is a “bag fence” to keep plastic bags from blowing out of a landfill
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