A soup of plastic waste with up to 36 million plastic particles per square kilometer in an area that spans the distance between Virginia to Cuba.
80 % of marine debris comes from land-based waste. In Massachusetts alone, a clean-up effort called “Clean-Sweep” took place. Volunteers collected 5,712 pounds of plastic bags; one of the most common forms of litter found.
http://www.takepart.com/article/2016/06/18/ocean-plastic-where-does-it-go
Plastic is a substance that never goes away. We throw out 88 tons of plastic per year. Reasons to say “No” to Plastic Bags & Paper Bags
It takes 12 million barrels of oil to produce the 100 Billion plastic bags consumed (thrown out) every year and less than 1% are recycled.
That would be enough fuel to fill up 1 Million cars every year!
A plastic bag takes 1,000 years to decompose on land and 450 years in waterways. This affects our Water, Energy, Forests, and Clean Air.
Plastic accounts for 90% of the trash on the ocean’s surface; which measures to 46,000 pieces per square mile. Marine life mistakenly sees a plastic bag as jellyfish and eats it.
Written By: S. Palazzolo
A REUSABLE BAG
Will save 6 bags a week, 24 bags a month, 288 bags a year, 22176 bags in an average lifetime.
PLASTIC BAGS
https://www.reusethisbag.com/25-reasons-to-go-reusable.php
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