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Did you know?
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- Eco Safe Bags is an Australian owned company specialising in the supply of quality
plain and printed calico, canvas and non-woven bags at economical prices.
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In Taiwan, the government has passed a law making it illegal for supermarkets, convenience stores and restaurants to give them out for free.
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In Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, they are completely banned because so many end up in the city's drainage system that they pose a serious flood hazard.
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The Irish started taxing them last year, and consumption dropped by a staggering 90 percent.
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"Australia uses around four billion plastic check-out bags a year? If you tied all of them together, it would create a chain long enough to go around the world 25 times!" – Catherine Ellis
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"Almost half of these bags are given away by non-supermarket retailers such as newsagents, discount stores, pharmacies, fruit and vegetable shops, liquor stores and take-away outlets." – noplasticbags.org.au
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"Plastic bags suffocate, disable and kill thousands of marine mammals and sea birds worldwide each year. When the animal dies and decays, the plastic bag is free again to repeat the deadly cycle." – noplasticbags.org.au
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"that thousands of birds and marine animals die each year because they swallow the plastic or get caught up in it. In 2000, this whale died on a beach in Queensland - 6 metres of plastic was found in its tummy." – Catherine Ellis
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"Plastic Bags can also take up to 1000 years to break down." – noplasticbags.org.au
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"At the current rate of plastic bag usage, our capital cities will reach their present landfill capacity by 2010." – noplasticbags.org.au
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"81% of Australians now use plastic bag alternatives, like calico or reusable bags because they care about the environment." – noplasticbags.org.au
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They are disposable plastic shopping bags, and Australians use nearly seven billion of them every year.
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They litter public spaces, kill turtles, pelicans, and other wildlife, and take up to hundreds of years to decompose.
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But their days are numbered. Australian state and federal governments recently pledged to phase out plastic bags within 5 years, with a 50% reduction by 2005.
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Retail giants Bunnings and IKEA have already started charging customers for plastic bags to discourage their use, and many other chains are set to follow suit.
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Fortunately there is an alternative: reusable shopping bags.
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They are inexpensive, durable, and environmentally friendly. Consumers have embraced them in droves in many countries, and the signs indicate that Australians will be next.
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