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What we

can do?

Danger to the animals

Laws trying to get passed

  • Don’t need it = don't use it
  • Bring a reusable bag
  • Encourage your friends.

Some statistics

of the waste

In affect this summer a 10 cent fee for each plastic bag used at grocery store

  • encouraging customers to not use plastic bags

November 2016 (this coming fall) a law is proposed to be passed

If we trade out our plastic bags for reusable bags the average person would save 6 bags a week

Translates into 22,176 saved in one person life

against the use

of Plastic Bags

Now IF 1 out of 5 people in the US

did this we would save 1,330,560,000,000

Can the plastic bag law be passed

across the U.S.A.

Beach Clean up

No plastic bag law!!!

Can we all as a

school not use

plastic bags ever?

  • Approx. 380 billion bags are used.
  • Approx. 1,200 bags/US resident per year.
  • Approx. 100 billion/380 billion are plastic

Plastic bags

Proposed ideas for solutions

Single-use bags, both paper and plastic, represent a huge threat to the environment

An estimated 12 million barrels of oil is required to make that many plastic bags

  • Interferes in ecosystems
  • During flood clog pipes and drains.

Please use Canvas and reusable bags

we don't want this

Only 1 to 2 % recycle

THANK YOU

Sources

http://ecowatch.com/2013/08/06/the-danger-of-plastic-bags-to-marine-life/

http://www.thankyourbody.com/dangers-of-plastic-bags/

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/02/24/california-plastic-bag-ban-on-hold_n_6747452.html

The Dangers of plastic bags

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