Poksak Reusable Bags Save the Environment
Poksak reusable bags save the environment by preventing and reducing plastic bag waste, they also help you deal with the plastic bag clutter that we've all dealt with at one time or another! Make your life easier, help the environment breathe easier!
Plastic Shopping Bags- Hide Them, Store Them, There's Just Too Many of Them!
Everyone has a hiding place filled with plastic shopping bags: in the pantry, under the kitchen sink, behind the laundry door. Similarly, everyone has a technique for storing these bags: folded neatly according to size, stuffed haphazardly into a plastic bin, shoved into bag upon bag…
Plastic Bags Harm the Environment
We try to recycle these plastic bags as small garbage bags, pooper-scoopers, shoe protectors, etc, but the reality is that we end up with hundreds and hundreds of plastic bags than we couldn't possibly ever reuse.
Plastic Bags Harm Animals
So where do these plastic bags end up? Fishermen witness sea turtles choking on them in our oceans. Children watch seagulls ingesting them on our beaches. Farmers discover them in the stomachs of their dead cows. Every day we see them floating across roads, lawns and playgrounds.
Plastic Bags Harm Soil and Water
Plastic bags are also taking a toll on our soil and water. Through photo degradation, plastic bags decompose into smaller toxic particles that contaminate the soil and the water, thus also contaminating the food chain. Let’s now imagine this pollution on the scale of over 100 billion plastic bags used in a year in the US alone.
160 Plastic Bags Per Family, 1 Trillion Plastic Bags Per Year!
If the average family accumulates around 160 plastic shopping bags a year (that’s 1600 over ten years) are we as vendors and consumers contributing to the problem or the solution? More than one trillion disposable plastic bags are used in the United States each year.
Globally, there are significant initiatives underway to help “clean-up” the environment. The use of reusable grocery shopping bags is just one of those initiatives.
Plastic Bag Taxes in San Francisco and Mexico City
In 2007, San Francisco became the first major city to ban plastic bags at checkout counters of major retailers. The local government of Mexico City (25 million inhabitants) has just passed a law banning the use of disposable plastic shopping bags and it is expected that this law will go in effect in a year or so. Look here for more information on plastic bag taxes in the future.
Paper Bags are Not an Eco-Friendly Solution!
Paper bags are not the solution either. According to the SF Weekly, paper bags require more energy to produce and transport, emit more greenhouse gases, generate more water and air pollution, consume far more fresh water and produce much more solid waste than their plastic waste counterparts.
Some published studies have found, for instance, that it requires 40 percent more energy to produce paper bags than plastic. Making paper bags can require sixteen times more water than plastic. Paper bags, while recyclable, make a large negative impact on the environment in their creation!
Take Action Now
Now is the time to take action against the use of plastic bags. Buy a Poksak reusable tote today, and help us save the environment! To purchase our eco bag please visit the Poksak Boutique. For additional information you may contact us at .
