Reusable Bags

This image should say it all... It is astonishing how many plastic bags we have already used this year! Check out the counter at the top of this site:  http://www.reusablebags.com/

At the time of this post, we have already used about 152,992,153,419 bags this year!! The number grows at about 1 millions bags per minute!!

A couple of facts from reusablebags.com:

Hundreds of thousands of sea turtles, whales and other marine mammals die every year from eating discarded plastic bags mistaken for food.

Plastic bags don't biodegrade, they photodegrade - breaking down into smaller and smaller toxic bits contaminating soil and waterways and entering the food web when animals accidentally ingest.

One thing you can do? Get reusable bags for shopping! You can buy them now at most of the major retailers. I think they run for a dollar or two? Maybe buy a couple each visit and collect them as you go.  Also, here is a coupon for a reusable lunch bag from Whole Foods:

http://media.oprah.com/sterm/whole-foods-coupon.pdf (you can thank Oprah for that!)

We all need to do our part!!!