Green Living

What's the problem with plastic bags?

Millions of plastic bags are handed out free every day around the world. They are cheap to make, lightweight, come in all sizes, are waterproof, and most of all, convenient.

The flipside to this convenience is that plastic bags are practically indestructible. Plastic bags are dumped as landfill, end up as litter, or have barely a 1% chance of getting recycled into a new product. They fly, they float and they can clog drains reeking-havoc in major cities.

The most disastrous is when they find there way into creeks and rivers, eventually ending up in the marine environment where they can remain for hundreds of years. Plastic photo degrades eventually breaking down into tiny plastic polymer molecules. These molecules then get distributed in our oceans, sea life, soils, land animals, and even us.

Plastic bags cause many problems in our environment.

Ocean Life
A floating plastic bag looks a lot like a jellyfish to a hungry marine animal. Hundreds of thousands of marine animals die each year from swallowing plastic bags. The World Wide Fund for Nature estimates that discarded plastic bags kill at least 100,000 birds, whales, seals and turtles every year. These animals die slowly of either starvation or suffocation. Once their bodies decompose the plastic bags are liberated back into the environment ready to kill again.

Human Life
Plastics contain chemicals, like bisphenol A, that are known endocrine disruptors. Hormone imbalances can have devastating outcomes like cancer or birth defects. It is precautionary to avoid exposure to these chemicals.

What's the solution?
Bring your Blue Lotus Reusable Produce Bags to the grocery store or farmers market and become empowered toward reducing your waste for better health for you and our planet.

Take Action!
Ban Plastic Bags Countries around the world including Taiwan, Bangladesh, United Kingdom, Ireland, New Zealand and Australia are banning and/or taxing plastic bags. Even cities like San Francisco have banned these bags in major stores.