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345567 per year
65 000
plastic bags such as sandwich bags
A common estimate is that global consumption of plastic bags is over 500 billion plastic bags annually. Yes that's 500,000,000,000 plastic bags used per year. In other words, that's almost 1 million plastic bags used per minute.As if that's not enough, some environmental groups have estimated that up to 1 trillion plastic bags are used worldwide each year. Now, depending on your definition of the word "trillion", that would be 1,000,000,000,000 plastic bags!
We would adapt. As we have in the past. Before plastic bags came into the picture - baskets, or cloth bags, then paper bags, boxes where used.
many plastic bags
many plastic bags
345567 per year
They are cheaper
65 000
32 million
8,000,000,000
plastic bags such as sandwich bags
no
A common estimate is that global consumption of plastic bags is over 500 billion plastic bags annually. Yes that's 500,000,000,000 plastic bags used per year. In other words, that's almost 1 million plastic bags used per minute.As if that's not enough, some environmental groups have estimated that up to 1 trillion plastic bags are used worldwide each year. Now, depending on your definition of the word "trillion", that would be 1,000,000,000,000 plastic bags!
polysecrene
the plastic used for shopping bags is called polyethylene.