- Around the world, four to five trillion plastic bags are used each year
- Every one of those bags takes an average of 750 years to decompose
- Roughly 46,000 pieces of plastic litter are floating in every square mile of ocean
- One hundred thousand marine mammals and sea turtles will die this year from ingesting plastic
Got your attention? Ready to do something about it?
Join Bulletin Bag [.com] in our efforts to reduce plastic waste by increasing the use of reusable bags. Sign our pledge, show your commitment, and share your ideas on reducing plastic bag consumption.
- I pledge to bring reusable bags to grocery stores, retail stores, and farmers’ markets to carry my purchases
- I pledge to recycle or reuse the plastic bags I already have
- I pledge to inform others of the environmental harm from plastic bag waste so they can also make this pledge
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Want to learn more? Check out some of our blog entries that speak to the environmental dangers of plastic consumption:
Great Pacific Garbage Patch
Atlantic Garbage Patch
What’s wrong with plastic and paper bags?
Plastic bags by the numbers
