 Each plastic bag takes 500 years to degrade.
4.175 million years. The 'average' person's plastic bag legacy
And from the "Plastic Ai'nt My Bag" campaign...
"Ten years ago, scientist Richard Dawkins observed that one could 'have travelled thousands of miles through the United States and never see a baseball cap turned back to front.' Today the reverse baseball cap is ubiquitous. Punchline; behaviour is viral. And we humans learn quick. In Bangledesh and Zanzibar and Taiwan they haven’t had plastic bags for years and are bearing up just fine."
The Real Cost - article from reusablebags.comLabels: environment, plastic |
