August 2014 - Big Fat Bags

Is your ‘reusable’ shopping bag safe?

August 14, 2014

Reusable shopping bags, we use them everyday, in all shapes and sizes with varied colours, designs, brands & logos, but are they safe? After all, think of the number of items that pass through that same reusable shopping bag on a … Continued

All Bigfatbags are safe tested to Centre Testing International level

August 3, 2014

By bigfatbags.co.uk

Your Antibacterial Shopping bag has passed !!! For your bigfatbag to complete its manufacturing process, it has to pass testing and certification to CTI (Centre Testing International) level to ensure the absence of any toxins, lead(Pb), Cadmium(Cd), Mercury(Hg) or Hexavalent Chromium(Cr(VI)) … 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