31: The Plastic Shopping Bag Debate Continues

The plastic shopping bag debate continues. In episode #27 we talked about how Americans use approximately 102.1 billion plastic bags, creating tons and tons of landfill waste. This number breaks down to the average American family using almost 1,500 plastic shopping bags a year. And worst of all less than 5% of these bags are recycled.

Thank you for all your comments and emails listeners, that podcast stirred up quite some interest and I’d like to share some of the comments with you.