Bring reusable bags when you go grocery shopping, or just shopping in general. Plastic bags pile up and persist on our planet for as many as one thousand years.
According to The Wall Street Journal the United States goes through 100 billion plastic bags per year, and those 100 billion bags require approximately 12 million barrels of oil to produce. Eight out of ten grocery bags in the US are plastic.
Plastic bags cause over 100,000 marine animal deaths per year when animals such as sea turtles mistake them for food. They tend to mistake a bag floating in the current with a jellyfish or some other delicious snack.
Every reusable bag you implement will on average eliminates the need for 1000 plastic bags. Get yourself four of these reusable bags, and you will of course eliminate four times that amount. These things add up.
These bags can often be purchased at your grocery store, but you can also use anything bag-like that you already have. I tend to bring a backpack and two reusable bags to get groceries. The bags I use are pretty swell. They are solid black with one big bold word on both sides… AWARE.
Be aware, do not live wastefully. This simple switch is a step in the right direction.
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