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Plastic Bag Legislation
Many states have, or are in the process of, eliminating single-use bags. Is your state one of the many taking steps to rid our environment of plastic bags?
Environmental Effects
- The average American family takes home almost 1,500 plastic shopping bags a year. (Natural Resources Defense Council)
- The U.S. goes through 100 billion plastic shopping bags annually at an estimated cost to retailers of $4 billion. (The Wall Street Journal)
- Only 1% of plastic bags are recycled in the U.S. (Huffington Post)
- Every year we make enough plastic film to shrink-wrap Texas. (Penn State University)
- More than 10 percent of washed-up debris polluting the U.S. coastline is made up of plastic bags. (Huffington Post)
- Over a lifetime, use of reusable bags by just one person would save over 22,000 plastic bags. (Future Centre Trust)
- In New York City, one less grocery bag per person would reduce waste by 5 million pounds and save $250,000 in disposal costs a year. (ABC News)