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THE BAGS ARE HERE!! The bags are here!! Banplastic.com grocery bags made from 100% Ecotec,, - a blended cotton yarn produced from the excess fabric of newly made clothing. This unique manufacturing process saves land, energy and water. For the best performance available, 20% of this bag contains 100% recycled soda bottle material.
According to the Council for Textile Recycling, 25,000 tons of new textile fiber is disposed of by North American spinning mills, weavers and fabric manufacturers each year. Technology now exists to make new cotton yarn from gin waste, commercial fabric trimmings and mills ends. Recycled cotton is recovered cotton that would be wasted during the spinning, weaving and cutting processes. Up to 40% of cotton grown is wasted between the harvest and the manufacture of garments. In the past, this waste went directly into landfills.
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Plastic bag facts

Each year, an estimated 500 billion to 1 trillion plastic bags are consumed worldwide. That comes out to over one million per minute. Billions end up as litter each year.

According to The Wall Street Journal, the U.S. goes through 100 billion plastic shopping bags annually. (Estimated cost to retailers is $4 billion)

Plastic bags are among the 12 items of debris most often found in coastal cleanups, according to the nonprofit Center for Marine Conservation.

The toxic chemical ingredients needed to make plastic produces pollution during the manufacturing process.

In a landfill, plastic bags take up to 1,000 years to degrade. As litter, they breakdown into tiny bits, contaminating our soil and water.

Collection, hauling and disposal of plastic bag waste create an additional environmental impact. An estimated 8 billion pounds of plastic bags, wraps and sacks enter the waste stream every year in the US alone, putting an unnecessary burden on our diminishing landfill space and causing air pollution if incinerated.

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* Each year, an estimated 500 billion to 1 trillion plastic bags are consumed worldwide. That comes out to over one million per minute.
* According to the EPA, over 380 billion plastic bags, sacks and wraps are consumed in the U.S. each year.
* According to The Wall Street Journal, the U.S. goes through 100 billion plastic shopping bags annually. (Estimated cost to retailers is $4 billion.)
* Californians throw away 294,000,000 pounds of plastic bags every year, or 147,000 tons - enough waste to circle the planet over 250 times.
* In the State of California, 600 plastic bags are thrown away every second.
* Some estimate a plastic bag may take one thousand years to decompose. That means a bag thrown away during the crusades, the birth of Constantine, or at the signing of the Magna Carta would just be finishing its decomposition now.
* 86% of all known species of sea turtles have had reported problems of entanglement or ingestion of marine debris.
* In the North Pacific Gyre, the mass of plastic is 6 times greater than the mass of plankton.
* If Californians cut their plastic bag waste in half, it would save over two thousand barrels of oil a day( over 800,000 barrels a year) and keep 73,000 tons of rubbish out of our landfills.
* In 1999, 14 million trees were cut to produce the 10 billion paper grocery bags used by Americans.
* Only 10 to 15 percent of paper bags and 1 to 3 percent of plastic bags are recycled.
* Paper bags take up more than twice the landfill space than plastic varietals do. Also, their greater weight and volume requires more trucks and gasoline for hauling than plastic.
* Tree regrowth cannot keep up with the current logging rate.
* It takes more than four times as much energy to manufacture a paper bag as it does to manufacture a plastic bag.
* Paper sacks generate 70% more air pollutants than plastic bags.
* It is estimated that between one to three percent of plastic bags produced worldwide end up as litter. Remember, generation numbers are estimated between 500 billion to 1 trillion plastic bags a year.
* In the 1980s it was estimated that plastic rubbish caused the deaths of over 100,000 marine mammals and sea turtles a year in the North Pacific alone.
* Less than 5 percent of US shoppers use canvas, cotton or mesh bags. Please change that number by choosing reusable when you shop.

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Each year, an estimated 500 billion to 1 trillion plastic bags are consumed worldwide. That comes out to over one million per minute. According to the EPA, over 380 billion plastic bags, sacks and wra...
Posted by Banplastic.com on Fri, 27 Jul 2007 08:40:00 PST

Sainsburys

Did you know Sainsbury's supermarkets in England will be giving out freethick plastic 15 cent bags out tomorrow for one day only, they will get ashock with the recycle figures?Coles Australias largest...
Posted by Banplastic.com on Fri, 27 Jul 2007 08:40:00 PST

A message i received fron Stephen Erwin

In Australia a voluntary 50% reduction of plastic bags given out by our major retailers failed to deliver this target. Mandatory measures will now come into affect by either a tax on bags or an all ou...
Posted by Banplastic.com on Fri, 27 Jul 2007 08:40:00 PST