{"id":278,"date":"2011-01-04T17:11:14","date_gmt":"2011-01-04T22:11:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bulletinbag.mivamerchant.net\/blog\/?p=278"},"modified":"2025-05-29T13:04:04","modified_gmt":"2025-05-29T17:04:04","slug":"pledge-reusable-bag-use","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bulletinbag.com\/blog\/pledge-reusable-bag-use\/","title":{"rendered":"Bulletin Bag [.com] Pledge: End Plastic Bag Use in 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Around the world, four to five trillion plastic bags are used each year<\/li>\n<li class=\"jce_caption\">Every one of those bags takes an average of 750 years to decompose<\/li>\n<li class=\"jce_caption\">Roughly 46,000 pieces of plastic litter are floating in every square mile of ocean<\/li>\n<li class=\"jce_caption\">One hundred thousand marine mammals and sea turtles will die this year from ingesting plastic<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Got your attention? Ready to do something about it?<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li class=\"jce_caption\">I pledge to bring reusable bags to grocery stores, retail stores, and farmers&#8217; markets to carry my purchases<\/li>\n<li class=\"jce_caption\">I pledge to recycle or reuse the plastic bags I already have<\/li>\n<li class=\"jce_caption\">I pledge to inform others of the environmental harm from plastic bag waste so they can also make this pledge<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thepetitionsite.com\/1\/bulletin-bag-reusable-bags-pledge\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">Sign our petition here<\/a>. Please note that you will be leaving bulletinbag.com for a third party site.<\/p>\n<p>Want to learn more? Check out some of our blog entries that speak to the environmental dangers of plastic consumption:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bulletinbag.com\/blog\/reduce-wasteful-plastic.html\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">Great Pacific Garbage Patch<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bulletinbag.com\/blog\/atlantic-garbage-patch.html\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">Atlantic Garbage Patch <\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bulletinbag.com\/faqs\/problem-with-paper-and-plastic-bags.html\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">What\u2019s wrong with plastic and paper bags? <\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bulletinbag.com\/blog\/plastic-shopping-bags-truth-in-numbers.html\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">Plastic bags by the numbers <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[205,27],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.5 - 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