1. The Facts You Need to Know
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The Facts You Need to Know

2. How are Plastic Bags Made?
An estimated 12 million barrels of oil is required to produce the plastic bags used in the US each year

3. How Many Bags are Actually Being Used?
An estimated 100 billion plastic bags are used in the United States every year
Worldwide, an estimated 500 billion to 1 trillion plastic bags are used

4. To Recycle, or Not to Recycle?
Although plastic bags are recyclable, less than 3% of them actually are. The rest end up in landfills, oceans, and as litter
An estimated 4 billion plastic bags end up as litter each year worldwide
In landfills, plastic bags sit for roughly 1,000 years before decomposing and release toxic chemicals into the soil during decomposition

5. Plastic Bags and Our Oceans
In our oceans, plastic debris was found in almost 75% of dead sea turtles in 2002
Further, there are reports of problems with entanglement or ingestion of marine debris, including plastic bags, in 86% of all known species of sea turtles

6. What Can We Do?
Reusing just one bag in your daily life (grocery/home shopping, trips to the beach/pool, gym, picnics, festivals, travel, etc.) can “eliminate” the use of approximately 6 plastic bags every week.
Saving 6 bags a week works out to 288 bags a year
Adopting the use of reusable bags for one's entire life can “save” (reduce) the need for over 20,000 plastic bags

7. Lets Get To Work!