The Dangers of Plastic Bags
- EPA says that 500 bill to a trillion bags are used each year
- Less than 1% of bags are recycled due to costs
- Most plastic bags end of in an ocean-fill
- Bags find their ways into the waters threw drains and pipes
- Plastic bags are 10% of debris in the U.S coastline
- Plastic bags degrade into even more toxic petro-polymers
- Micro particles enter the food chain
- almost 200 different species of sea-life die due to plastic bags
- Ways to help the earth from plastic bags:
Use a cloth bag to save 6 bags a week
If 1 of 5 people used cloth bags, we can save 1,330,560,000,000 in our life time
- Bangladesh has banned plastics bags
- China banned free plastic bags
- Ireland taxed plastic bags with 90% less plastic bag comsumption
- Rwanda banned plastic bags
- More and more countries banned plastic bags
- Plastic bags are made from polyethylene
- Less plastic bags can lower oil depended from other countries
- china can save 37 million barrels of oil with their ban of bags