Plastic Bag Ban Locations

Understanding the Need for Reusable Bags

We manufacture and sell custom reusable grocery bags, shopping bags and many other environmentally friendly products because of the destructive effect one-time use plastic bags are causing throughout the world. These non-biodegradable bags are responsible for unsightly litter, flooding, the degradation of soil, creating an unnecessary expense, wasting petroleum (a non-renewable resource) and natural gas, and causing the deaths of hundreds of thousands of animals a year.

• Globally, ~500 billion to 1 trillion plastic bags are consumed per year – Over 1 million bags per minute
• Millions of sea animals die from plastic bags and other waste each year
• Retail businesses spend about $4 billion each year on plastic bags
• Only 8% of the total plastic waste generated in the US in 2010 was recycled
• The United Nations Environment Program estimates 46,000 pieces of plastic litter floating in every square mile of ocean
• Americans throw away about 1 billion plastic bags a year, equivalent to dumping ~12 million barrels of oil

The drawbacks of disposable plastic bags far outweigh the advantages and cities, counties, states and even countries all over the world are looking for solutions to their plastic bag problems.

Sources:
http://www.epa.gov/osw/conserve/materials/plastics.htm
https://factorydirectpromos.com/life-cycle-of-a-plastic-bag

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What Do You Think?

Tell us if you support bag bans or bag fees, fill us in on bag ban updates you know about but don’t see on the map, and tell us about your efforts or the work of others to get the bag ban initiatives off the ground!