Did you know. . .?

Plastic bags do not biodegrade, or decompose, like other items. They photo-degrade, or break down in the sunlight into smaller pieces, but never completely go away.
A plastic bag can take between 400 to 1,000 years to photo-degrade into very small pieces. The small pieces, or microplastics, have been found to be as problematic (or more problematic) for the environment than the bags themselves.
The world’s oceans continue to fill with plastic trash, and about 80% of that trash comes from on land.
At least 267 different marine species are known to have suffered from our litter, most of which is plastic.
Every year, Americans use approximately 102 billion plastic bags, but only about 2% of those bags get recycled. The average American household uses approximately 300 plastic bags per year.
One regular-sized plastic bag, when cut into strips, yields 30-50 feet of plastic yarn, called plarn.

One Plastic Bag