Plastic bags, what should we do with them all? how many do we use? this article answers those questions.

     308 billion bags, that is 308,000,000,000 plastic bags get thrown out every year in the US alone, tossed into the trash, tossed out of cars, blown into trees, you name it. i am not going to be one of those people who start talking about carbon emissions or anything along those lines. and only about 2% of those bags become recycled. The best thing to do would be try to recycle and reuse as many plastic bags as we can, and one of the best ways to do that is to turn it into plarn (plastic yarn).

     100 billion plastic bags used are shopping bags. other plastic bags hold potatoes, bread, newspapers, etc. the shear amount of plastic bags that just get tossed in the trash is enormous. that is why crocheting and knitting plarn is labeled a good idea by me. It takes me on average about 60-70 plastic bags to create a reasonably sized tote bag out of plarn. That is 60-70 plastic bags less in the landfill. I myself work predominately in plarn, although other materials are used. So far I have made 8 plarn bags and saved a estimated 400 plastic bags from the landfill. Example of some of my works are below.

This is a plarn bag that I have crocheted out of about 75-80 dollar general bags.

Another plarn bag I made out of about 70 plastic grocery bags

     So this is a good idea to keep the plastic bags out of the landfill and away from oceans and wildlife. Wildlife die every day by inhaling, strangling themselves in or eating plastic bags on accident, and the easiest thing to do to prevent it is lower the amount of plastic bags are in use and recycle all of them that we can so that the wildlife is safe.

To find out how to make plarn, visit this site HERE.

For more information about what you can do to help get rid of plastic bags, click on the links below.

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the problems with plastic bags

Other articles written by me:

http://bizcovering.com/business/aluminum-cans-and-what-you-can-do-with-them/

http://gomestic.com/home/a-list-of-strange-and-useful-things-that-are-made-into-fabric/

http://quazen.com/recreation/crafts/how-to-make-beads-from-drinking-straws/

http://bizcovering.com/business/aluminum-cans-and-what-you-can-do-with-them/

http://gomestic.com/home/a-list-of-strange-and-useful-things-that-are-made-into-fabric/

http://quazen.com/recreation/crafts/how-to-make-beads-from-drinking-straws/