Some things about plastic bags

Did you know Australians use around four billion plastic check-out bags a year?

• Globally hundreds of billions are used!
• Only a small number are recycled. That's maybe a big menace to the environment.

What's so good about them?

• You can use them to carry food.
• You can put your rubbish in them.
• You can use them to store food.
• You can use them in your garbage/rubbish bin.
• You can reuse them at the shops.

But what's so bad about them?

• Well during the process harmful greenhouse gases are emitted.
• Plastic bags cling to trees, drift along footpaths and marine animals die when caught up in them in the ocean .For example, in 2000, a whale died on a beach in Queensland and 6metres of plastic was found in its tummy.