How to Save over One Trillion Plastic Bags from being used Over a Lifetime
Published: 24 July 2008
Category: Packaging CONCERNS, Recycling, Sustainability
The “Pocono Record” recently posted a slideshow about the “dangers of plastic bags” that provides facts about how many plastic bags are recycled versus end up in landfills, the costs of recycling plastic bags, the amount of plastic debris in our oceans, and what people can do to stop plastic bags from entering the landfill or our oceans. The slideshow reports if just one out of five people in our country used cloth bags instead of plastic, we would save 1,330,560,000,000 bags over our lifetime.