Why reuse when you can refuse!?!

It's become very trendy to bring your resuable shopping bags with you to the market. And everyone is capitalizing on it. These bags are available everywhere. But plastic shopping bags are still leaving stores in droves. Reusablebags.com estimates that worldwide 500 billion plastic bags are used annually, 100 billion of which are attributed to the U.S. It's ok to use plastic bags as long as you recycle or reuse them right? What if you learned that most of the bags that are collected in store for recycling never actually get recycled? Would that change your plastic bag consumption?

Here's Green Dailys case for skipping the plastic shopping bags and committing to BYOB ( Bring Your Own Bag) on your next shopping trip.

**Less than 1% of plastic bags are recycled each year and it costs more to recycle a plastic bag than to make a new one.

**According to San Francisco's Department on the Environment, it costs $4,000 to process and recycle one ton of plastic bags, which can then be sold for $32.

**Plastic bags account for more than 10% of debris washed up on the U.S. coastline, according to the National Marine Debris Monitoring Programming.









PLASTIC PLANET: THE CURSE OF THE CARRIER BAG

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