Giving a new life to plastic bags

Giving a new life to plastic bags

Dolores weaver turns trash to treasure
Valerie Leroy weaves plastic grocery bags into reusable bags to sell at local farmers markets.
Throw-away grocery bags are recycled and woven into a reusable bag.

Giving a new life to plastic bags

Valerie Leroy weaves plastic grocery bags into reusable bags to sell at local farmers markets.
Throw-away grocery bags are recycled and woven into a reusable bag.
Fast Facts

More than 1 trillion plastic bags are used every year worldwide. Consider China, a country of 1.3 billion, which consumes 3 billion plastic bags daily, according to China Trade News.
About 1 million plastic bags are used every minute.
A single plastic bag can take up to 1,000 years to degrade.
More than 3.5 million tons of plastic bags, sacks and wraps were discarded in 2008.
Only 1 in 200 plastic bags in the United Kingdom are recycled (BBC).
The U.S. goes through 100 billion single-use plastic bags. This costs retailers about $4 billion a year.
Plastic bags are the second-most common type of ocean refuse, after cigarette butts (2008)
Plastic bags remain toxic even after they break down.
Every square mile of ocean has about 46,000 pieces of plastic floating in it.