When checking out at the grocery store, you may think that the plastic bag you’re being offered is free. The truth, however, is that from the beginning of its life cycle, the plastic bag brings costs too great to ignore. The price is paid by our air, our oceans, wild animals, and even the human economy. Just look around and you’ll notice the bags are everywhere, they’re hanging in trees, floating on the side of the road, in the bay...everywhere.

Plastics do not biodegrade; no naturally occurring organisms can break down the polymers in plastic. Instead, plastic photodegrades: sunlight breaks the plastic down into smaller and smaller pieces until plastic dust remains.

Broken down plastic dust may be small, but can still be consumed by birds, fish, and sea turtles, and interferes with natural ecosystems. In the central North Pacific, researchers have found six pounds of degraded plastic for every one pound of surface zooplankton.

There is only one way out from the damage that we have caused to the environment, purchase sturdy, environmentally friendly, reusable bags. Scale back the role plastic bags play in your life.
Do some thing before our children face a day when birds and turttles are historical animals,like dinosaures are for now.