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Say No to Paper AND Plastic!
- Over 500 billion plastic bags are consumed worldwide each year.
- Plastic bags can take up to 1000 years to decompose.
- Plastic bags kill about 100,000 whales, seals, turtles, and other marine animals each year.
- Paper bags generate 70% more air pollutants and 50 times more water pollutants than plastic bags.
- Plastic bags are made from nonrenewable petroleum resources.
- It takes 4 times as much energy to manufacture a paper bag as it does to manufacture a plastic bag.
- In 1999, 14 million trees were cut to produce the 10 billion paper grocery bags used by Americans that year alone.
- It takes 91% less energy to recycle a pound of plastic than it takes to recycle a pound of paper, but only about 1% of plastic bags are ever recycled.
- Because of the lack of light, water, and oxygen in today's landfills, paper does not break down at a substantially faster rate than plastic.