Start Your Reusable Bag Habit!

• The average American uses between 300 and 700 plastic bags per year.  Currently, 97% of these bags end up in either a landfill or littering our planet's fragile eco-systems.
• If everyone in the United States tied their annual consumption of plastic bags together in a giant chain, the chain would reach around the Earth 760 times!
• According to the American Forest and Paper Association, in 1999 the U.S. alone used 10 billion paper grocery bags, requiring 14 million trees to be cut down.
• The world's largest landfill can be found floating between Hawaii and San Francisco. Wind and sea currents carry marine debris from all over the world to what is now known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.  This "landfill" is estimated to be twice the size of Texas and thousands of pounds of our discarded trash, mostly plastics.  Each year hundreds of thousands of sea birds and marine life die from indigestible plastics mistaken for food. (L.A. Times)