Green Fact Tuesday

Each year, approximately 500 billion to 1 trillion plastic bags are consumed worldwide. That’s over one million bags per minute. Billions of them end up as litter each year.

According to MSN, the production of plastic bags creates enough solid waste per year to fill the Empire State Building two and a half times.

The Worldwatch Institute estimates that in the U.S. alone, an estimated 12,000,000 barrels of non-renewable petroleum oil are required to produce the 100 billion bags consumed annually. That’s over $500,000,000 the country could be saving to put towards clean, green energy.

60,000: The number of plastic bags used in the U.S. every five seconds.

The petroleum used to make only 14 plastic bags could drive a car 1 mile.

Over 100,000 marine animals, including highly intelligent, adorable sea turtles, whales and dolphins, die every year because of plastic bags.

In some parts of the ocean there are six pounds of plastic for every pound of plankton.

They can take from 400 to 1,000 years to decompose but their chemicals residues remain for years after that.

Isn't it time you donated your plastic bags to Daisy's Bags by kristin j?
Upcycling: the art of transforming the disposable into something of great value.

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