Facts About Plastics Bags and Film Packaging
Here are a few interesting facts about plastic bags and film packaging:
- 15: The percentage of polyethylene bags, sacks and wraps that the EPA recently reported were recycled in 2010. This is up from 12% from the year before.
- 31: Percentage increase of bag and film recovery since 2005, according to the Moore Recycling Association’s 2009 National Postconsumer Recycled Plastic Bag & Film Report.
- 12,000: Locations across the country that take back plastic bags and product wraps to be recycled, often at retail stores.
- 90: The number of Americans that reuse their plastic shopping bags.
