Did you know?

• The world uses 1 million plastic bags per minute.
• Plastic bags break down into smaller and smaller pieces and can enter the food chain when ingested by animals.
• Each plastic bag takes up to 1000 years to decompose and never completely disappears.
• Millions of animals are killed each year by ingesting or getting caught up in plastic bags. After these animals decompose, the plastic is re-released into the environment.

There is loads of eye-opening information with references and accompanying pictures and links to films on the website which helped to inspire us – that of Modbury in Devon, the first UK town to go plastic-bag-free – www.plasticbagfree.com.