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Article: Plastic is forever.(Statistical table)
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- New Internationalist
- Article date:
- September 1, 2008
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Plastic bags, no thanks!
* The world uses an estimated one million plastic bags every minute; 150 bags per year for every person on earth. (1)
* The Canadian province of Ontario banned plastic bags from government liquor stores in 2008 resulting in 80 million fewer bags being used yearly. (2)
* China banned plastic bags in 2008 following the lead of Hong Kong. Bangladesh was the first country in the South to ban them in 2002. Papua New Guinea, Bhutan, Taiwan and Botswana followed suit. (3)
* Ireland introduced a plastic bag tax in 2002. Within a few months the number of bags handed out at supermarkets had dropped by 90%. (1)
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