Animals which ingest plastic bags actually die and decompose much quicker than the plastic itself. The plastic is then released back into the environment more or less intact, ready for the next unsuspecting organism to ingest it.

There are approximately 46,000 pieces of plastic floating in each square mile of our oceans.

Plastic kills up to 1 million sea birds, 100,000 sea mammals and countless fish each year.

Turtles, dolphins and killer whales mistake plastic bags for jellyfish and die of intestinal blockage.

Consider plastic bags to be a daily symbol of our waste problems.

Their overuse is wasteful of resources and energy, they become a litter problem, and harmful to our fauna.

Estimates for the time it takes them to break down in the environment range between 20 to 1000 years.

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