billion and a trillion plastic bags are consumed worldwide each year.Less than 1% of bags are recycled.
It cost more to recycle a bag than to produce a new one.
“There's harsh economics behind bag recycling: It costs $4,000 to process and recycle 1 ton of plastic
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Then…
Where Do They Go?
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So…
What do we do?
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A study in 1975, showed oceangoing vessels together dumped 8 million pounds of plastic annually. The real reason that the world's landfills weren't overflowing with plastic was because most of it ended up in an ocean-fill. 
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Bags get blown around…
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If we use a cloth bag, we can save 6 bags a week we ca
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That's 24 bags a month
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…to different parts of our lands
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…and to our seas, lakes and rivers.
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That's 288 bags a year
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That's 22,176 bags in an average life time in
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Bags find their way into the sea via drains and sewage pipes
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Plastic bags have been found floating north of the Arctic Circle near Spitzbergen, and as far south
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If just 1 out of 5 people in our country did we would save 1,330,560,000,000 bags over our life time
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Bangladesh has banned plastic bags
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Plastic bags account for over 10 percent of the debris washed up on the U.S. coastline
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Plastic bags photodegrade: Over time they break down into smaller, more toxic petro-polymers
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China has banned free plastic bags China hasbanned free plastic bags
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Ireland took the lead in Europe, taxing plastic bags in 2002 and have now reduced plastic bag 
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Nearly 200 different species of sea life including whales, dolphins, seals and turtles die due to plastic bags 
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On March 27th 2007, San Francisco becomes first U.S. city to ban plastic bags - NPR.org (National Public Radio)
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It is possible...
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