Plastic bag facts
Biodiversity Conservation
Available Online
Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP)
2006
Plastic bags can last up to 1,000 years in the environment .A car can drive 115 metres on the amount of petroleum used to make one plastic bag More than 100,000 sea animals, including sea turtles die each year from plastic debris including plastic bags Governments, businesses and community groups around the Pacific spend time and money cleaning up the plastic bags that are dumped thoughtlessly. The easiest way to reduce the number of plastic bags is to use an alternative, the next time you go shopping, take your own bag