If you cannot do great things. Do something small because…

…every little bit does help.

There were around 10 million children attending school in 2021. A large majority of these children will carry sports accessories to school in a plastic bag. Some more than once a week. Have you ever thought what happens to the plastic bag you have used to put your dirty trainers in… is it actually recycled?

It is estimated that only about 2-3% of plastic bags get taken to recycling points. The remaining 97% end up everywhere.

Plastic bags are difficult and costly to recycle and most end up on landfill sites where they take around 300 years to photodegrade. 

About 5 trillion plastic bags are manufactured every year. If these bags are placed side by side, they can encircle the earth seven times.

An average family can use up to 15 plastics bags per shopping trip.

The amount of petroleum required to produce one carrier bag is enough to move an average car about 11 meters.

In 2008, a sperm whale that had become beached in California was found to have died as a result of having ingested over 20 kilos of plastic from bags that had made their way into the ocean.

The North Pacific Ocean is estimated to have at least six times more plastic debris than sea plankton.

It takes about 700 years for plastic to start degrading and the product only completely breaks down after 1000 years. This means all the plastic that has been manufactured in the world so far is not even close to degrading.

Plastic is a photodegradable substance. This means when plastic starts to degrade, it gets broken down into smaller, poisonous toxins that release harmful gases into the environment, waterways and poison marine animals.

Around 67 million people in the UK. If every 1 of one us reduced our plastic bag usage by 1 a week. That would be 3.5 trillion less plastic bags to worry about per year. You can do your bit.

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Do your little bit for the environment? Even those little bits that make all the difference. Plastic will be the main ingredient in our grandchildren’s recipe. Anthony T Hincks