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| GREEN FACTS |
| Honu and other marine life mistake plastic bag for food. |
- According to The Wall Street Journal, the U.S. goes
through 100 billion plastic shopping bags annually.
An estimated 12 million barrels of oil is required to
make that many plastic bags
- Plastic bags don’t biodegrade, they photodegrad
breaking down into smaller and smaller toxic bits
contaminating soil and waterways and entering the
food web when animals accidentally ingest.
- The average family bring home about 1,000 plastic
bags every year. Most of these bags end up in the
land fill, which it can take up to 1,000 year for a bag
to decompose.
- Hundreds of thousands of sea turtles, whales and
other marine mammals die every year from eating
discarded plastic bags mistaken for food.
| Hundreds of plastic bags stuck in the trees on Pulehu Road on Maui. |
- When 1 ton of plastic bags is reused or recycled,
the energy equivalent of 11 barrels of oil are saved.
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- When 1 ton of paper bags is reused or recycled, 3
cubic meters of landfill space is saved and 13 - 17
trees are spared! In 1997, 955,000 tons of paper
bags were used in the United States.
- Less than 5 percent of US shoppers use canvas,
cotton or mesh bags. Please change that number
by choosing reusable when you shop.
- Using eco-friendly reusable shopping bags
instead of plastic bags is a small, and simple
lifestyle change. You wouldn’t forget your purse or
wallet before going to the grocery store, so just
remember not to forget your re-usable shopping
bags.
- Each reusable shopping bag you use has the
potential to eliminate hundreds, if not thousands,
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