The Future of Plastic Bags

Future of Plastic bags

    Even though plastic bags have been used widely now, there still may be time to stop the disaster. Many countries are cracking down on plastic bags. China has banned plastic bags and has saved the world 37 million barrels of fossil fuel annually. Rwanda and Bangladesh have banned plastic bags. Ireland has put a tax on plastic bags thus, reducing the usage by 90%. In the U.S.A., on a few cities like San Francisco and Boston have banned plastic bags and other cities are following their example too. If just one person uses a cloth or a canvas bag, they would save: 6 bags a week, 24 bags a month, 288 bags a year, and 22,176 bags in a life time. In fact, if just 1 out of 5 people stopped using plastic bags, then the world would save 1,330,560,000,000 bags in a lifetime. (Or 1 trillion, 330 billion, 560 million).