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why are plastic bags still around??? 

Data release by the United States Environmental Protection Agency shows that somewhere between 500 billion and a trillion plastic bags are consumed worldwide each year

Less than 1% of bags are recycled.  It costs more to recycle a bag than to produce a new one.

So where do they end up?

A study in 1975, showed oceangoing vessels together dumped 8 million pounds of plastic annually.  One reason that the world's landfill's were not overflowing with plastic was because most of it ended up in an ocean-fill.

• Plastic bags have been found floating north of the Artic Circle near Spitzbergen, and as far south as Falklagrade | over time they break down into smaller, more toxic petro-polymers which eventually contaminate soils and waterwaysnd Islands.
  
• Plastic bags account for over 10 percent of the debris washed up on the U.S. coastline.
  
• Plastic bags photode
  

The effect on wildlife becomes catastrophic, birds become terminally entangled

Nearly 200 different species of sea life including whales, dolphins, seals and turtles die due to plastic bags... some die after ingesting plastic bags which they mistake for food

Here's the change we can make!!!

• If we use one reusable bag we can save 6 bags a week
  
• that's 24 bags a month
  
• that's 288 bags a year
  
• that's 22,176 bags in an average life time
  
• If 1 out of 5 people in our country did this we would save 1,330,560,000,000 bags over our life time
  

Who's banned plastic bags

Bangladesh

China has banned free plastic bags

Ireland took the lead in Europe, taxing plastic bags in 2002 and have now reduced plastic bag consumptions by 90%

Rwanda in 2005

Israel, Canada, Western India, Botswana, Kenya, Tanzania, South Africa, Taiwan and Singapore have also banned and/or are in the process of banning plastic bags

March 27, 2007, San Francisco becomes the first U.S. city to ban plastic bags

Oakland and Boston

Plastic shopping bags are made from polyethylene: a thermoplastic made from oil

Decreasing plastic bags will decrease foreign oil dependency

ana k is proud to support the environmental changes that we must make for our younger generation that is going to follow our footsteps tomorrow...

We offer a great selection of reusabe bags from Envirosax.   In addition to the benefits that a reusable bag provides Envirosax donates a percentage of its sales to charities and non-profit organizations dedicated to the preservation of the environment.

Have soccer practice after school or going over a friends house... you now have a stylish bag to use every time and believe me you will get asked "where did you get that bag?"

You're only cool if you are conscious of tomorrow and caring for today...