Stop Using Plastic Bags Now

Our recent reusable bag sale was very successful, and this presentation convinces me all the more that we need to get rid of these things.

A few highlights:

• Somewhere between 500 billion and 1 trillion bags are consumed a year.
• Less than 10% are recycled (although I'm sure that many get reused)
• It costs more to recycle the bags than the resulting product is worth: $4000 to recycle, $32 worth of usable raw material.
• Most of the bags end up in the ocean.