I recycle my walmart bags and use my local grocery store bags for a good many of the uses on the list i e.
Usage of plastic bags.
We guess the number hasn t gone down since then and use the upper estimate of 5 trillion.
Governments frequently fail to offer subsidies for bags you can reuse.
Use them as packing material.
They also don t require recycled content usage in biodegradable or recycled rpet plastic bags.
Trash bags lunch bags laundry bags etc.
For hungry sea turtles it s nearly impossible to distinguish between jellyfish and floating plastic shopping bags.
When you are traveling plastic bags can be used to wrap up breakable souvenirs.
The problem with plastic bags.
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.
Plastic bags start out as fossil fuels and end up as deadly waste in landfills and the ocean.
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.
Birds often mistake shredded plastic bags for food filling their stomachs with toxic debris.
Incentives aren t offered for single use plastic bag alternatives.