Let's talk about plastic bags. It's something that everybody
uses but it's time that we stop using them now. estimated that
the world uses 500 billion to 1 trillion plastic bags a year. In
alone, they estimate that it takes 12,000,000 million barrels of
oil are required to produce the 100 billion plastic bags used
each year. (Source: reusablebags.com) When I used to work at a
major outdoor store in Toronto, I was constantly amazed the
large numbers of people who requested bags to carry home their
freshly purchased knapsack. What's with that? They looked at me
like I had two heads when I suggested that they just put it on
their back... important that we start to educate our students
about making sure they don't allow plastic bags to get into our
waterways. Two articles showed up in the press today about
animals ingesting plastic bags and dying slow horrible deaths.
Here is one on a giant turtle in Australia and another one about
2 pounds of plastic bags found in a minke whale found dead in
who missed it a coup