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THE FACTS
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The rapid increase of plastic products in the last 70 years or so has been extraordinary; quite simply we cannot live without them. We are now producing nearly 300 million tons of plastic every year, half of which is for single use. More than 8 million tons of plastic is dumped into our oceans every year.
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Plastic is cheap and incredibly versatile with properties that make it ideal for many applications. However, these qualities have also resulted in it becoming an environmental issue. We have developed a “disposable” lifestyle and estimates are that around 50% of plastic is used just once and thrown away.
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PLASTIC BAGS
Plastic is a valuable resource and plastic pollution is an unnecessary and unsustainable waste of that resource.
"No water, no life. No blue, no green"- Dr. Sylvia Earle
Packaging is the largest segment accounting for just over 40% of total plastic usage.
Approximately 500 billion plastic bags are used worldwide in supermarkets.
Over the last ten years we have produced more plastic than during the whole of the last century.
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More than one million bags are used every minute.
A plastic bag only has an average “working life” of 15 minutes.
After that it is forgotten about and thrown away or even worse littered.
The plastic bags then get washed into our oceans and turtles mistake them for food.
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