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Plastic bags are harming our environment! Whether or not you believe that Global Warming is contributing to Climate Change is irrelevant. We all have a duty to do something to reduce the amount of plastic that is filling our landfill AND our seas, with devastating consequences.

Using reusable canvas bags, instead of plastic bags is one way to take responsibility to reverse the damage currently being done to our enviroment.

Here’s some of the very good reasons why you should buy a canvas bag:

• The average use of a plastic bag is 12 minutes – they take 100s of years to decompose
• Every year plastic bags kill hundreds of thousands of birds, whales, seals and turtles
• Once an animal that has consumed plastic dies, its body decoposes and then releases the plastic to kill again
• Those “free” plastic bags are not free, their production cost adds billions of $$ to the world’s grocery bills each year
• The total annual worldwide consumption of plastics bags is estimated at 500,000,000,000 (that’s 500 billion)
• Almost 1 million plastic bags are given away per minute
• It takes an estimated 12 million barrels of oil to make the 100 million plastic bags used annually in the USA
• Before San Francisco banned plastic bags, it was estimated that there was 100 plastic bags in the Bay for every seal, duck and pelican
• One canvas bag eliminates the need for approx 1,000 plastic bags
• Plastic bags photodegrade rather than bio-degrade, leaving tiny toxic particles to contaminate soil and waterways, where they enter the food chain and are accidentally ingested by animals
• Plastic bags are now amongst the most frequently found litter along the world’s coastlines

Are you convinced about why you should use environmentally friendly reusable bags?

Reusable canvas bags are easily available and cheap to buy, in shops and online. These eco friendly bags make great gifts for your more environmentally aware friends and family and also those who you wish were more environmentally aware!

Zazzle has a great range of reusable canvas bags, that you can buy ready designed or you can design your own.

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