“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 used3 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
33- estimated EPA percent that plastic bag use has dropped in CA the last 3 yearsCensored? Nope... people are talking.
Hi Hilary,
ReplyDeleteThis is an important story that chronicles our culture's relationship with oil-created plastic bags - the "mockumentary" is particularly compelling.
Fine use of our our Web 2.0 tools - useful embeds and hyperlinks.
Give us a bit more specifics in terms of the NON-censored nature of this story (beyond a simple "people are talking.")
Good work here.
Dr. W