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A Reminder as to why this is so important
Introduced just over 25 years ago, the ugly truth about our plastic bag
addiction is that society's consumption rate is now estimated at well over 500,000,000,000
(that's 500 billion) plastic bags annually, or almost 1 million per minute.
An estimated 60 million barrels of oil is required to make that many plastic bags.
According to the BBC, only 1 in 200 plastic bags in the UK are recycled.
Recycling requires energy for the collection, processing, etc. and doesn't address
the above issues as it doesn't address peoples attitudes towards re-using.
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