GREEN  FACTS
Honu and other marine life
mistake plastic bag for food.
Hundreds of
plastic bags
stuck in the
trees on Pulehu
Road on Maui.
  • 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 % of US shoppers use canvas, cotton or
    mesh bags. Please change the 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 thousand,
of plastic bags over its lifetime.
  • 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.
Some bags only claim to be green but
are    made from non-woven polypropylene
("NWP"). This textile is byproduct of oil
refining and it is not biodegradable.
You may reuse the NWP several times,
but all bags must someday be thrown out.
The NWP will not biodegrade and never
will be compostable back into the landfill.  
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