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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,
       of plastic bags over its lifetime.
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