Facts

Here are some other known facts that might convince you to use reusable bags instead of those honestly, gruesome-looking plastic bags:

• About 500 million to 1 trillion plastic bags are consumed globally every year. That is like a million plastic bags in just a minute.
• Plastic bags don’t biodegrade. Instead they break down into smaller toxic pieces that contaminate soil and waterways and clog rivers, lakes, and oceans.
• Production of plastic bags needs an enormous amount of oil.
• Hundreds of thousands of whales, sea turtles and other marine animals die every year from eating discarded plastic bags that are often mistaken for food.
• North America goes through a hundred and ten billion of plastic shopping bags per anum.
• North America is very behind from the rest of the world in its use and recycling of plastic bags in the retail industries.