30 Billion Plastic Garbage Bags – No Big Deal

A Japanese editor, no doubt given the assignment to “find a way”, defended the use of plastic garbage/shopping bags.

Despite the fact that somebody has found a way for plastic bags to decompose in just 3 months this Japanese editor did manage to mount a reasonable defense of the pollutants.

He learned that of the 30 billion plastic garbage bags, in Japan at least.

1. 83% get reused, as liners for kitchen garbage bags.

2. 80% of people use them in trash baskets.

3. 43% find some way, anyway to reuse them.

4. and just 0.8% throw them away outright.

Sounds like recycling to me. And, what’s wrong with that?

If it weren’t for the plastic bags brought home from the supermarket, the users say they would buy other plastic bags expressly for that purpose.

Does it sound like the big plastic bag makers don’t like the little guys cutting into their profits to you?

So, what’s the big deal with plastic bags if they are in fact being reused?