Everyone on our planet uses 83 plastic bags every year. That is one bag per person every four and half days. Out of those 500 billion bags, 100 billion are consume in the United States. The average plastic bag takes 300 years to dissolve, and it is more expensive to recycle and difficult to recycle them then it is to create a new bag. When they break down, they become tiny toxic particles that end up in our food cycle by entering the water stream and soil.

Our planet is becoming extremely contaminated with toxics from the plastic bags and that is due to the fact the they are not being reused or recycle. Doing this we can reuse, reduce, and recycle the amount of toxics, we put into our planet. After all this is, our planet and we need it for our generation of people and those to come. If we do not take care of our planet who is going to?

Add to that the enormous amounts of energy that has used every year in order to manufacture these bags and it is no surprise that pressure is being put on governments to make changes and consumers to re-think their attitudes. By refusing to use plastic bags, you can make a huge difference to the pollution problem. Remember that each person uses about 83 bags a year. If there are four people in your family that is 332 plastic bags less every year. That's 332 bags less that will release toxins into the ground water from landfill sites , Get into the food chain through animals that ingest small particles of plastic, Waste energy during the manufacturing process.