Use Reusable Bags
The conservation group estimates that 50 percent of all marine litter is some form of plastic. There are 46,000 pieces of plastic litter floating in every square mile of ocean, according to the United Nations Environment Programme. In the Northern Pacific Gyre, a great vortex of ocean currents, there’s now a swirling mass of plastic trash about 1,000 miles off the coast of California, which spans an area that’s twice the size of Texas, including fragments of plastic bags. There’s six times as much plastic as biomass, including plankton and jellyfish, in the gyre.
…unless they’ve been incinerated — a noxious proposition — every plastic bag you’ve ever used in your entire life, including all those bags that the newspaper arrives in on your doorstep, even on cloudless days when there isn’t a sliver of a chance of rain, still exists in some form, even fragmented bits, and will exist long after you’re dead.
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Change the title. Don’t use paper bags, get reusable bags and reuse them. If everyone remembered 50% of the time to take their reusable bag it would probably save millions of barrels of oil.
Funny, I was thinking about doing that right after I posted this last night. You beat me to it.
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Safeway has these reusable shopping bags that cost $.99/each. But I always forget to bring it so I end up buying a new one. I now have 5 reusable bags.
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