Plastic Grocery Bags

On June first a law came into act banning the distribution of free plastic grocery bags at common stores. They also banned it from buses and any public transportation. China is not the only country to make this giant step for green. South Africa, Ireland, Uganda and Bangladesh all took this monumental leap years ago when they realized that the bags were clogging the drainage and polluting their water. As recently as last year Oakland and San Francisco, California outlawed plastic grocery bags being given out at supermarkets. Come on America we can do this! Let's follow in California's footprints! "500 billion to a trillion plastic bags are consumed worldwide each year." says National Geographic, this nonsense has to stop.

Here is what plastic bags do to the environment:
• because only 1% of all plastic bags are recycled the remaining 99% wind up in landfills (see below)
• 100,000 marine animals and birds die each year due to being tangled in plastic bags according to Blue Ocean Society for Marine Conservation
• There is currently and island the size of Texas floating of the coast of California consisting only of fragments of discarded plastic grocery bags.