Ocean Sentry
(From recordonline.com)- Once its brief useful life is over, it usually winds up as garbage because it costs more to recycle a plastic bag than to produce a new one. More than 200,000 plastic bags are dumped into landfills every minute; it takes 1,000 years for those pesky bags to photodegrade.
Many plastic bags become airborne litter, tangled in tree branches, clogging up storm drains or billowing like a sail on the ocean.
Planet Ark, an international environmental group, tallied over 100,000 whales, seals, turtles and other marine animals killed by plastic bags each year worldwide.
(By Shawn Dell Joyce)
