The harrowing tale…. Plastic bags started as a convenience to paper. They are cheap and easy, hanging around every street corner…Well, Mama always told us “You get what your pay for.†Now, we can’t get rid of them! You take them home, and they won’t leave until you are 6 feet under! Plastic bags litter on our streets, our countryside, and mainly our oceans, fatally wounding our wildlife. In the marine environment, plastic bag litter is extremely lethal ,killing over 100,000 birds, seals, whales and turtles every year. "Plastic debris is the most common surface feature of the world's oceans.â€- Charles MooreHistorically, humans have always tossed waste into the ocean but marine organisms broke it down in a relatively short time. Unfortunately, our quest for convenient packaging over the past 50 years or so, created a class of plastic products that are immune to even the most rapacious bacteria.Up to 1 million sea birds, 100,000 sea mammals and countless fish and other wildlife each year die globally from entanglement in, or ingestion of, plastics.