500,000,000,000: Society's annual consumption rate of plastic bags--nearly 1 million per minute.

380,000,000,000: Number of plastic shopping bags consumed by Americans per year.

12,000,000: Barrels of oil used per year to produce plastic shopping bags used by Americans.

1,000,000: Seabirds and 100,000 marine mammals & sea turtles worldwide die yearly from ingesting plastics.

46,000: Pieces of plastic rubbish found on every square mile of central Pacific Ocean.

1,460: Number of plastic bags used each year by the average family of four.

1,000: Number of years that single-use plastic bags can remain on our planet.

75: Percentage of all grocery bags used in the US that are plastic.

2: Percentage of plastic bags produced each year that are recycled.

1: Number of high-quality reusable bags needed to eliminate up to 1,000 plastic bags.

Use One, Save 1,000.

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