Plastic Bags Blow!

What a cute saying...."Plastic Bags Blow"! I found this on ReusableBags.com while searching for environmentally friendly holiday gifts (which I promised I would write more about). There's an actually campaign to help stop the use of plastic bags. You can get activist kit with buttons, t-shirt and stickers for only $4.95!!! Wow! What a great thing to get a young teen who wants to have a cause. I can't stand using the plastic bags but do my best to recycle them at our local Wal-Mart or use them for our tiny garbage cans around the house. I'm not as diligent as I should be about using my canvas bags and it has to do with forgetfulness and laziness.

When I started reading some facts on ReusableBags.com I started feeling guilty and now will be buying everyone I know for Christmas some of their very stylish bags. I'm going to use them as my gift bags this year so that I'm not even buying wrapping paper (if I can avoid it). Here are some facts from ReusableBags.com that I urge you to check out....

• Hundreds of thousands of sea turtles, whales and other marine mammals die every year from eating discarded plastic bags mistaken for food.

• Plastic bags are among the 12 items of debris most often found in coastal cleanups, accoPlastic bags don’t biodegrade, they photodegrade—breaking down into smaller and smaller toxic bits contaminating soil and waterways and entering the food web when animals accidentally ingestrding to the nonprofit Center for Marine Conservation.

• Each year, an estimated 500 billion to 1 trillion plastic bags are consumed worldwide. That comes out to over one million per minute. Billions end up as litter each year.

• According to The Wall Street Journal, the U.S. goes through 100 billion plastic shopping bags annually. (Estimated cost to retailers is $4 billion)

So here's another great earth friendly, give back and help someone gift idea and a prompt for myself and everyone to stop being so lazy!!!! Shame on me. Make sure you leave me a post and tell me if you use reusable bags or what your thoughts are.