March 2014 - Big Fat Bags

Your bag-for-life could poison you

March 18, 2014

How your bag-for-life could POISON you: Expert warns that reusable carriers could become contaminated with E.coli Professor Hugh Pennington, professor of bacteriology at the University of Aberdeen said ‘Plastic bags should be used for things like raw meat. They shouldn’t … Continued

Antibacterial Shopping bags and how they protect us, and help our planet.

March 11, 2014

By bigfatbags.co.uk

First of all, you are doing a good thing. There are many, many reasons why mostly all ‘bags for life’ make sense on an environmental level. The sheer volume of plastic that would be saved from ending up in our sewers, … Continued

Only 14% of plastic water bottles are recycled

www.inhabitat.com/2009/09/21/watershed-recycled-bottle-art-debuts-at/
The Pacific Regional Environment Program has reported the amount of petroleum used to make a single plastic bag would drive a car about 115 metres.

It would take only 14 plastic bags to drive one mile! www.sprep.org/factsheets/pdfs/plasticbags.pdf
Even when an animal dies and decays after ingesting a bag, the plastic re-enters the environment, posing a continuous threat to wildlife

www.worldwatch.org/node/5565
Scientists estimate that every square mile of ocean contains about 46,000 pieces of floating plastic

www.sprep.org/factsheets/pdfs/plasticbags.pdf
It takes 12 million barrels of oil to produce the amount of plastic bags the US uses per year

Made from petroleum products and natural gas, plastic bags utilize non-renewable resources, ultimately helping to drive up fuel prices.
The average reusable bag has the lifespan of over seven hundred disposable plastic bags

Over a lifetime, use of reusable bags by just one person would save over 22,000 plastic bags. Isn’t that even better incentive?
A plastic bag can take between 400 to 1,000 years to break down in the environment

Plastic bags are among the 12 items of debris most often found in coastal cleanups, according to the non-profit Center for Marine Conservation.
A person uses a plastic carrier bag on average for only 12 minutes

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.
Nearly 90% of the debris in our oceans is plastic

The World Wide Fund for Nature has estimated that over 100,000 whales, seals, and turtles die every year as a result of eating or being trapped by plastic bags.

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Only 14% of plastic water bottles are recycled

The Pacific Regional Environment Program has reported the amount of petroleum used to make a single plastic bag would drive a car about 115 metres.

Even when an animal dies and decays after ingesting a bag, the plastic re-enters the environment, posing a continuous threat to wildlife

Scientists estimate that every square mile of ocean contains about 46,000 pieces of floating plastic

It takes 12 million barrels of oil to produce the amount of plastic bags the US uses per year

The average reusable bag has the lifespan of over seven hundred disposable plastic bags

A plastic bag can take between 400 to 1,000 years to break down in the environment

A person uses a plastic carrier bag on average for only 12 minutes

Nearly 90% of the debris in our oceans is plastic