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Did you know?Americans use an estimated 380 billion plastic bags a year
According to the EPA, over 380 billion plastic bags, sacks and wraps are consumed in the U.S. each year.
Four out of five grocery bags in the US are now plastic.
Plastic bags cause over 100,000 sea turtle and other marine animal deaths every year when animals mistake them for food.
According to the WSJ, Target, the second-largest retailer in the U.S., purchases 1.8 billion bags a year.
According to the industry publication Modern Plastics, Taiwan consumes 20 billion bags a year - 900 per person.
In a dramatic move to stem a tide of 60,000 metric tons of plastic bag and plastic utensil waste per year, Taiwan banned both last year.
According to the BBC, only 1 in 200 plastic bags in the UK are recycled.
The average family accumulates 60 plastic bags in only four trips to the grocery store.
Each high quality reusable bag you use has the potential to eliminate an average of 1,000 plastic bags over its lifetime.
Enough petroleum is used in producing just 14 plastic bags to drive a car 1 mile
One reusable bag can save enough petroleum in one year to drive a car 60 miles
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