Wednesday November 21

Just a little note - in regards to the plastic bags issue that I wrote about in my previous blog. I didn't realize what a problem these were. Well, last night on my way home from work I paid attention to the outside...... from Hilgers on US 30 to my house - which is about 12-13 miles - I counted 15 plastic bags - 15 plastic bags either along side the road, in the fields, in the trees..... these are ones that I without a doubt could tell were the plastic bags. I think we have a problem here. Here is another website with cool reuseable bags that I found.http://globotote.com/pages/buy_yahoo/orderpage.html. Also found a really cool site about recycling and using http://www.4rfuture.com/index.php

Why care?
Worldwide, more than one million plastic bags are used every minute.
In the U.S., about 12 million barrels of oil and 14 million trees go to producing plastic and paper bags each year.
Each year, about 4 billion plastic bags end up as litter.