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Data release=
d by
the United States Environmental
Protection Agency shows that
somewhere between 500 billion and a
trillion plastic bags are consumed
worldwide each year.
National Geographic News September 2, 2003<= /span>
National Geographic News September 2, 2003<= /span>
Less than 1% of bags are recycled. It cost more to recycle a bag than to produce a new one.
- Christian Science Monitor News Paper
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“There's harsh economics behind bag recycling: It costs $4,000 to =
process and recycle 1 ton of plastic bags, which can then be sold on the commodities market for $32”
- Jared
Blumenfeld
(Director of San Francisco's Department of = the Environment)
(Director of San Francisco's Department of = the Environment)
Then…
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A study in 1975, showed oceangoing vessels together dumped 8 million pounds of plastic annually. The real reason that the world's landfills weren't overflowing with plastic was <=
/span>because most of it ended up in an ocean-fill <=
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- U.S. National Academy of Sciences
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Bags get blown around̷=
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…to different parts =
of
our lands
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