The Dangers Of Plastic Bags
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Clearerperspective said 4 days Edit DeleteFor facts about plastic bags and their impact on the environment as well as environmental shopping strategies, visit www.thetruthaboutplasticbags.com
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Clearerperspective said 4 days Edit Delete
For facts about plastic bags and their impact on the environment as well as environmental shopping strategies, visit www.thetruthaboutplasticbags.com
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Clearerperspective said 4 days Edit Delete
For facts about plastic bags and their impact on the environment as well as environmental shopping strategies, visit www.thetruthaboutplasticbags.com
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guestd3a8a7 said 3 weeks Edit Delete
i never realised how much plastic bags are made and howmuch damage they can do! this slide show has really opened my eyes thankyou and welldone
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- Slide 1: Data released by the United States Environmental Protection Agency shows that somewhere between 500 billion and a trillion plastic bags are consumed worldwide each year. National Geographic News September 2, 2003
- Slide 2: Less than 1% of bags are recycled. It cost more to recycle a bag than to produce a new one. - Christian Science Monitor News Paper
- Slide 3: “There's harsh economics behind bag recycling: It costs $4,000 to process and recycle 1 ton of plastic bags, which can then be sold on the commodities market for $32” - Jared Blumenfeld (Director of San Francisco's Department of the Environment)
- Slide 4: Then… Where Do They Go?
- Slide 5: A study in 1975, showed oceangoing vessels together dumped 8 million pounds of plastic annually. The real reason that the world's landfills weren't overflowing with plastic was because most of it ended up in an ocean-fill - U.S. National Academy of Sciences
- Slide 6: Bags get blown around…
- Slide 7: …to different parts of our lands
- Slide 8: …and to our seas, lakes and rivers.
- Slide 9: Bags find their way into the sea via drains and sewage pipes - CNN.com/tecnhology November 16, 2007
- Slide 10: Plastic bags have been found floating north of the Arctic Circle near Spitzbergen, and as far south as the Falkland Islands - British Antarctic Survey
- Slide 11: Plastic bags account for over 10 percent of the debris washed up on the U.S. coastline - National Marine Debris Monitoring Program
- Slide 12: Plastic bags photodegrade: Over time they break down into smaller, more toxic petro-polymers - CNN.com/tecnhology November 16, 2007
- Slide 13: which eventually contaminate soils and waterways - CNN.com/tecnhology November 16, 2007
- Slide 14: As a consequence microscopic particles can enter the food chain - CNN.com/tecnhology November 16, 2007
- Slide 15: The effect on wildlife can be catastrophic - World Wildlife Fund Report 2005
- Slide 16: Birds become terminally entangled - World Wildlife Fund Report 2005
- Slide 18: Nearly 200 different species of sea life including whales, dolphins, seals and turtles die due to plastic bags - World Wildlife Fund Report 2005
- Slide 19: They die after ingesting plastic bags which they mistake for food - World Wildlife Fund Report 2005
- Slide 20: So… What do we do?
- Slide 21: If we use a cloth bag, we can save 6 bags a week
- Slide 22: That's 24 bags a month
- Slide 23: That's 288 bags a year
- Slide 24: That's 22,176 bags in an average life time
- Slide 25: If just 1 out of 5 people in our country did this we would save 1,330,560,000,000 bags over our life time
- Slide 26: Bangladesh has banned plastic bags - MSNBC.com March 8, 2007
- Slide 27: China has banned free plastic bags - CNN.com/asia January 9, 2008
- Slide 28: Ireland took the lead in Europe, taxing plastic bags in 2002 and have now reduced plastic bag consumption by 90% - BBC News August 20, 2002
- Slide 29: In 2005 Rwanda banned plastic bags - Associated Press
- Slide 30: Israel, Canada, western India, Botswana, Kenya, Tanzania, South Africa, Taiwan, and Singapore have also banned or are moving toward banning the plastic bag - PlanetSave.com February 16, 2008
- Slide 31: On March 27th 2007, San Francisco becomes first U.S. city to ban plastic bags - NPR.org (National Public Radio)
- Slide 32: Oakland and Boston are considering a ban - The Boston Globe May 20, 2007
- Slide 33: Plastic shopping bags are made from polyethylene: a thermoplastic made from oil - CNN.com/tecnhology November 16, 2007
- Slide 34: Reducing plastic bags will decrease foreign oil dependency
- Slide 35: China will save 37 million barrels of oil each year due to their ban of free plastic bags - CNN.com/asia January 9, 2008
- Slide 36: It is possible...
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