Try to avoid plastics

1. Welcome
Oct 09, 2011 Saturday

2. PLASTIC
Plastic bags are ubiquitous....

3. Consumption
500 Billion plastic bags / year
100 Billion are used and discarded in the US alone.
Approximately....
United State Airline flight used 4 million bags per day.
40 million paper cups a day for Hot berverages.
In India uses 3 kg of plastic per person per year.
European 60kg and American who consumes 80 kg.
Recycling.
2% of bags only get recycled.
$4,000 to process and recycle 1 ton of plastic bags. Sale value $32
Where Do They Go?

5. So…
What do we do?
If we use a cloth bag, we can save 10 to 15 bags a week

6. 1) Use biodegradable bags / cotton bag
2) Paper bags and packets
3) Offices can distribute canvas bags as New Year gifts instead of
diaries and other sweet nothings
Bangladesh has banned plastic bags - MSNBC.com March 8, 2007
China has banned free plastic bags - CNN.com/asia January 9,
2008
Ireland taxing plastic bags in 2002 and have now reduced plastic
bag consumption by 90% - BBC News August 20, 2002
Reference..
1) WorldWatch Institute statistics.
2) Jared Blumenfeld - Director of San Francisco's Department of the
Environment
3) National Geographic News September 2, 2003

7. Thank you