Saving our planet, one bag at a time

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Hi all

Lots of things are causing harm to our planet and our lives. I am concerned with an issue that each one of us can do something about – plastic bags.

Sounds like a small thing, but they are a bigger problem than you can imagine. The world throws them away at the rate of a million bags a minute. That’s right. One million. Per minute. 24/7!

What happens to the bags that are discarded?

Nothing. They do not biodegrade so they stick around, choking landfill, flying around and getting entangled in trees, bushes, everywhere, making your world uglier.

Worse, many get ingested by innocent animals and marine creatures who die horrible deaths because their digestive systems get choked and clogged.

And they affect every human being also. While they don’t biodegrade, they do photodegrade, which means they turn into small particles and continue to leech out plastic toxins that enter your water and food streams. Today, most adult Americans urinate plastics.

I hope you folks agree that it is a big problem.

Now to what we can do about it.

Simple solutions exist, but not enough people know about them. Reusable cloth bags are an elegant and economical solution.

Most folks assume that these would be expensive, but they aren’t. The prices at http://www.badlani.com/bags will give you a pleasant surprise. Maybe if you share this information with shops in your community they might consider switching. And if you also talk to your local council about the option, they might suggest or even insist that shops in your community switch to reusable bags.

And, you’ll have achieved this for your community. All it takes is for someone to take the lead.

At my weblog, http://www.badlani.com/blog you will see stories about a number of communities from Alaska to Australia where local councils have got rid of plastic bags from their communities.[/img]