Jan
Paper or Plastic
Every time we go into a grocery store, we are asked paper or plastic. What is a green going, semi aware person to say to that? Listen up so that you can become a green going and EDUCATED person.
Plastic bags wind up in our oceans, get stuck in our trees, and blow around our sidewalks. Each year, more than 500 BILLION plastic bags are used. A very small part of them are ever recycled. Most people use them to move the groceries from point A to point B and then toss them in the garbage. Do you know what happens to those bags after they hit your trash bin? They wind up in our landfills where they can last over a thousand years. Eventually they begin to break down into itty bitty toxins that wind up in our soil and water. Yep, just what I want to be drinking.
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Kudos to green bags! We have ‘em and use ‘em too! Plastic is murder! I think in San Francisco, they passed some kind of ordinance banning plastic bags in supermarkets … now can you convince Miami on that one?
Aaarrgghh! This is a subject that totally makes me fume… I can’t even believe the world allows plastic bags. I can’t believe they’re simply just not allowed. As in illegal. That would solve the whole problem in one shot.
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San Francisco did ban plastic bags… some numbers for you.
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180 million
Roughly the number of plastic shopping bags distributed in San Francisco each year.
2 to 3 cents
Amount each bag costs markets, compared with anywhere from 5 to 10 cents for a biodegradable bag.
4 trillion to 5 trillion
Number of nondegradable plastic bags used worldwide annually.
430,000 gallons
Amount of oil needed to produce 100 million nondegradable plastic bags.
Source: S.F. Department of the Environment; Worldwatch Institute