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Plastic Facts
	1,460 plastic bags are used each year by an average U.S. family.
	One cloth bag can save 6 plastic bags per person a week. That’s roughly 300 per year.
	Data released by the EPA shows that somewhere between 500 billion and a trillion plastic bags are consumed worldwide each year.
	Less than 1% of plastic bags are recycled.
	It takes 500 - 1000 years for a plastic bag to decompose.
	It costs more to recycle a plastic bag than it does to produce a new one.
	Plastic is shipped overseas for recycling.
	Roughly 60–80% of all marine debris, and 90% of floating debris is plastic.
	Nearly 200 different species of sea life die due to plastic bags.
	Plastic is made from oil. 12 million barrels of oil are used to make the plastic bags each year for U.S. consumption alone.
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Must Read...

UN calls for global ban on plastic bags to save oceans
www.news.mongabay.com
June 9, 2009 UN’s top environmental official releases report calling for global ban of plastic bags, stating zero justification for continued manufacturing.

The Dangers of Plastic Bags
www.unep.org
Data released by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

Battle of the Bags
www.newsweek.com
How the plastics industry uses lobbying and legal threats to turn plastic bag prohibitions into voluntary recycling drives.

Makers of plastic bags to use 40% recycled content by 2015
www.usatoday.com
Under pressure from consumers, environmental advocates and retailers, the companies that make more than 80% of plastic bags used by the nation's big retailers on Tuesday will announce plans to make the plastic bags from 40% recycled content by 2015.

Family tries to live without plastic
www.seattletimes.nwsource.com
Could you live without plastic? A reporter makes her family of four — that on average buys or discards 200 plastic items a week — go plastic free.