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 I have been using canvas shopping bags since 1989.  Here are some facts from a report my 7th grader did for English class.  According to NBC’s Today Show Americans use 100 billion plastic bags per year. Manufacturing these plastic bags is like dumping 12 million barrels of oil down the drain, because that is how much oil is needed to manufacture these bags. In most cases these bags are used only once then thrown away. Currently only 5% of all plastic bags get recycled. The rest end up in landfills or dumped in the oceans. It is estimated that there are 46,000 pieces of plastic floating in every square mile of the ocean. If every American family reused just one plastic bag during every trip to the store it would keep 10 billion new bags from being needed. This would result in saving enough fuel to power 50,000 cars for a year. One million plastic bags are manufactured per minute worldwide.   Here is the link from the Today Show.  It is very interesting. ...
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