Here are some other known facts that might convince you to use BYOB bags instead of those honestly, gruesome-looking plastic bags:
- About 500 million to 1 trillion plastic bags are consumed globally every year. That is like a million plastic bags in just a minute.
- Plastic bags don’t biodegrade. Instead they break down into smaller toxic pieces that contaminate soil and waterways and clog rivers, lakes, and oceans.
- Production of plastic bags needs an enormous amount of oil.
- Hundreds of thousands of whales, sea turtles and other marine animals die every year from eating discarded plastic bags that are often mistaken for food.
- North America goes through a hundred and ten billion of plastic shopping bags per anum.
- North America is very behind from the rest of the world in its use and recycling of plastic bags in the retail industries.