Monday, May 31, 2010
Thursday, May 20, 2010
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch and Oprah
An average family spends over $250 per year on nonrenewable plastic bags.
Oprah shows you some ways you can help:
Why it Isn't Plastic vs. Paper
The cons of Plastic Bags:
-Plastic bags last up to 1,000 years, either in litter, landfills, or oceans and rivers.
-Petroleum and natural gas and needed to produce plastic bags which causes pollution. The energy used to transport the bags eats up resources and creates global-warming emissions.
-Hundreds of thousands of animals die every year from eating plastic bags mistaken for food.
The Cons of paper bags:
-It takes 60% more energy to make a paper bag as it does a plastic bags.
-Although they are biodegradable, 80% of paper bags end up in landfills, where they do not biodegrade due to lack of oxygen. Thus, the landfill impact of paper bags in terms of weight, volume, and cost, is higher than the landfill impact of plastic bags, which are light and compact.
Solution: REUSABLE BAGS!
By bringing your own bag to the grocery store, you will be saving 22,000 plastic bags you would have used in a lifetime!
http://www.reusablebags.com/
http://www.envirosax.com/
http://www.factorydirectpromos.com/
Or you can get one at your local grocery store. (ex. Whole Foods, Safeway etc.)
Look at countries that have already banned plastic bags:
Tuesday, May 18, 2010
Jelly Fish-Save their planet
A cute animation on plastic bags harm to marine life.
You can see more videos here: http://animalssavetheplanet.com/
Saturday, May 15, 2010
Tuesday, May 11, 2010
Monday, May 10, 2010
Why are Plastic Bags a Problem?
• They are harmful to the environment.
• Takes 1000 years to decompose into smaller pieces, which seep down into the soil and release chemicals, which eventually reach the water supply.
• Kills animals in the water when they eat plastic bags thinking they are jellyfish
• Builds up in landfills
• Manufacturing of plastic bags is harmful to the environment because nonrenewable resources are used (petroleum and natural gas). The manufacturing process itself uses toxic chemicals, pollutes the atmosphere and consumes energy.
• The transportation of the billions of plastic bags produced annually means further energy consumption, largely in the form of more petroleum.
• Stores give out unlimited amounts of plastic bags for FREE even when the costumer doesn’t really need one
• Cost in terms of energy and manpower is greater than the value of the material produced
HELP PASS BILL TO BAN PLASTIC BAGS IN CALIFORNIA
TAKE A MINUTE TO FILL OUT THE FORM!
Big push on banning plastic bags - Environment California
Wednesday, May 5, 2010
Our Mission
Every year, the United States consumes 100 billion plastic bags. The world annually consumes 500 billion bags. Because plastic bags take 1,000 years to decompose, they remain littered on our streets, in our landfills and our oceans. Effecting not only our society, but the environment and animals that live in it.