| Plastic Bag Statistics... Plastics account for 12 percent of US municipal solid waste. The average American family takes home almost 1,500 plastic shopping bags a year... NRDC www.nrdc.org/media/2008/080109.asp Americans use and dispose of 100 billion plastic shopping bags each year and at least 12 million barrels of oil are used per year in the manufacture of those plastic grocery bags. The Wall Street Journal Less than 5 percent of plastic grocery bags are recycled in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Americans spent $15 billion on 8 billion gallons of bottled water in 2006. www.articlearchives.com/chemicals/plastics-rubber-industry-plastics/220746-1.html |
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