Usage Of Plastic Bags

Incentives aren t offered for single use plastic bag alternatives.

Usage of plastic bags.

The worldwatch institute estimates that 4 5 trillion plastic bags were produced in 2002. Plastic bags for national security duty free and airport bags export or agricultural uses. Plastic bags start out as fossil fuels and end up as deadly waste in landfills and the ocean. When you are traveling plastic bags can be used to wrap up breakable souvenirs.

San francisco was the first to do so in 2007. Use them as packing material. Trash bags lunch bags laundry bags etc. We guess the number hasn t gone down since then and use the upper estimate of 5 trillion.

Birds often mistake shredded plastic bags for food filling their stomachs with toxic debris. I recycle my walmart bags and use my local grocery store bags for a good many of the uses on the list i e. For moving use them to wrap things that might break during the move by wrapping small breakables in their own bags and wrapping the excess bag to keep the items from breaking. For hungry sea turtles it s nearly impossible to distinguish between jellyfish and floating plastic shopping bags.

Governments frequently fail to offer subsidies for bags you can reuse. Some businesses have stopped offering their customers plastic bags and many communities are considering a ban on plastic bags.