Plastic bags and the environment

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Do you like shopping?

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Well over 500 billion to 1 trillion single-use plastic bags are given out for free each day But… nothing is for free

What happened to the plastic bags? : 

What happened to the plastic bags? Have you ever wondered?

Less than 1 % of the plastic bags are recycled. It cost more to recycled a plastic bag than to produce a new one.This is where you found them… : 

Less than 1 % of the plastic bags are recycled. It cost more to recycled a plastic bag than to produce a new one.This is where you found them…

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It takes 1000 years to break down

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Bags get blown around…

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end up in the oceans…

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In our reefs…

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Animals confuse bags for food and the result is…

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They eat them and they died.

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100,000 marine mammals die yearly by eating plastic bags.

So… What can you do? : 

So… What can you do? If we use a cloth bags, we can save 6 bags a week

That’s 24 bags a month : 

That’s 24 bags a month

That’s 288 bags a year : 

That’s 288 bags a year

That’s 22,176 bags in a average lifetime. : 

That’s 22,176 bags in a average lifetime.

If 1 out at 5 people do this, we would save 1,330,560,000,000 bags over our lifetime : 

If 1 out at 5 people do this, we would save 1,330,560,000,000 bags over our lifetime

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Do the right thing… Be a smart shopper… Dispose of them correctly and use a canvas bag and you will save the wildlife and the planet.