This year, approximately 300 million tons of plastic will be produced in the world. This is the equivalent weight of 800 Empire State Buildings! Since the millennium, almost as much plastics have been produced as during the second half of the 1900’s.
One third of all plastics are used in packaging which are opened, empted and thrown. Bags and bottles will soon be all over the place. Worldwide, more than one billion plastic bags are distributed to consumers every day. Most of them are burned, but many are just thrown away. Travelling the highways in Saudi Arabia for example, you will find both sides of the road covered with plastic items.
In the U.S., 3.5 billion kilograms of packaging are thrown in the garbage cans each year, at a cost of four billion dollars for dealers and customers. This equals the amount of petroleum needed to energize one million cars. Neither is good, because they emit CO2 to the atmosphere or, as plastic items, degrade very slowly. So why not ban plastic bags.
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