The Danger of Plastic Bags

year! That’s 22,176 bags in an average life time If just 1 out of 5 people in our country did this we would sabe 1,330,560,000,000 bags over our life time.

Bangladesh has banned plastic bags China has banned free plastic bags. Ireland took the lead in Europe, taxing plastic bags in 2002 and have now reduced plastic bag consumption by 90% In 2005 Rwanda banned plastic bags Israel, Canada, western India, Botswana, Kenya, Tanzania, South Africa, Taiwan, and Singa¬pore have also banned or are moving toward banning the plastic bag.

On March 27th 2007, San Francisco becomes first U.S. city to ban plastic bags. Oakland and Boston are considering a ban. Plastic shop¬ping bags are made from polyethylene: a ther-moplastic made from oil.

Reducing plastic bags will decrease foreign oil dependency. China will save 37 million barrels of oil each year due to their ban of free plastic bags. It is possible...