A Million a Minute

A million a minute. A million a minute. A million a minute. Think about that. And less than .67 percent of plastic bags are recycled:

Plastic bags costly for environment

November 13, 2006
http://www.redandblack.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2006/11/13/4557c427e265a
Red&Black.com, Athens, GA

Every minute in the United States, we use approximately 1 million plastic bags. Target alone purchases 1.2 billion bags yearly for their customers - add to that Wal-Mart, Kroger, Best Buy and almost every other place you shop, and you can start to see how our annual total is more than 100 billion bags...