Paper or plastic?

“Do you ever feel like a plastic bag drifting through the wind, wanting to start again?” Katy Perry

Censored Story #23- Worldwide movement to ban or charge fees for plastic bags

Facts by the numbers:

500 billion-1 trillion- the amount of single-use plastic bags used by shoppers worldwide per year
12 minutes- is the average amount of time a plastic bag is used

3 million- the amount of barrels of oil used to make 19 billion plastic bags

19 billion- the amount of plastic bags that are used annually in California



35- the number of countries that have banned use of plastic bags

• Article regarding India's plastic bans
  

33- estimated EPA percent that plastic bag use has dropped in CA the last 3 years



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