Please invest in some reusable grocery bags

A plastic shopping bag can take anywhere from 15 to 1000 years to decompose. In a compressed landfill, deprived of atmosphere to help them biodegrade, paper bags don't fare much better.

Plastic bags don't biodegrade, but are at risk for photo degradation, light exposure dissolving them into toxic polymer particles. Most often, when this happens, it happens in the ocean.

The cost to recycle plastic bags so outweighs their value that most recycling facilities will not take them, leading more and more to just be thrown out with the rest of the trash.

According to the Wall Street Journal, only 1% of plastic bags are recycled world-wide; the rest are left to live on indefinitely in landfills.

The United States alone uses approximately 100 billion new plastic bags per year - the average person goes through between 350 and 500.

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Also remember to keep them in your vehicle so that you grab them on your way into the store.
My experience has been, that one reusable grocery bag can hold at least 6 plastic bags worth of groceries. Not to mention there is no fear of it busting all over the sidewalk.