1000 Flowers for the Planet - #18 Reject Plastic Bags

1000 Flowers for the Planet - #18 Reject Plastic Bags

Plastic bags were introduced into supermarkets in 1977.

Australians use over 3.65 billion plastic bags a year

Europe throws away 4 billion plastic bags a year

Americans use 100 billion plastic bags each year (another website put this figure at 350 billion)

Around the world 500 billion to 1 trillion! bags are used every minute

In many cases it’s difficult to know the date for when this information was uploaded to the net, but who cares which is correct – the figures are staggering at best.)

It takes 1,000 years for a plastic bag to decompose.

If you think using paper bags is the answer, think again! It takes more energy, a lot more water and produces more greenhouse gases to produce paper bags compared with plastic bags. So get out those baskets, reusable bags and cotton totes and use them.