Take the Bag Back

500 billion. That’s the number of plastic grocery bags consumed worldwide each year. While handy and able to hold your fair trade coffee and local radishes, plastic bags are often used once before they end up in a sea turtle’s stomach. In other words, these things are used for ten minutes and then take a million years to disappear. Next time you go shopping, take your old bags with you. Buy a unique bag holder for your pantry, and grab a few sacks to reuse (or recycle) at the checkout line. Find out how durable these things really are.