Bigfatbags now available in Lakeland UK.

August 24, 2015

The Grocery Box Co Ltd are delighted to announce our partnership with Lakeland across their stores in the UK. The home of creative kitchenware now stocks the ‘Midnight’ bigfatbag available instore and also through their website by clicking the link @ Bigfatbag Antibacterial Shopping Box

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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