Why eco-friendly bags?
Act now for a sustainable future. The average American uses 350 plastic bags each year, that’s about 100 billion plastic bags for the whole country. These bags can clog drains, crowd landfills, and leave an unsightly blot on the landscape. Plastic bags can take up to 1,000 years to break down. Every year, over 45 billon plastic containers end up in landfills. If no further action taken, 40 billion pounds of PET waste will be added to our landfills within only a decade. It takes 700 years for a plastic bottle to decompose. And every year more than 100,000 whales, seals, birds and sea turtles die as a result of plastic bags. The production of plastic bags requires large amounts of crude oil, natural gas, or other petrochemical derivatives. The production of paper bags requires large amounts of wood, petroleum, and coal. Each reusable bag has the potential to eliminate an average of 1,000 plastic bags over its lifetime.
