That's only from grocery stores. Add in other store visits and one person can easily throw away over 1,000 bags a year. Grocery bags can not be made from recycled paper. Plastic bags are a product of the petroleum industry, a non-renewable substance with a lot of production problems. Very few plastic bags are actually recycled.
Plastic bags end up choking our landfills, eventually breaking down into tiny toxic bits.
Reusable cloth shopping bags make an environmental difference. About The Cloth Bag Co. Since then we have dropped our prices three times. Overwhelming sales have let us buy larger amounts of fabric which, combined with more efficient cutting, sewing and printing have lowered our costs. This savings we have passed on to you.