Plastic bags eat up fossil fuel, litter streets and choke wildlife. What's more, it is estimated that plastic bags can take between 500 and 1000 years to decompose!

The Board of Supervisors have proposed a ban on plastic bags for large grocers in San Francisco. If this law were passed, large stores would have to offer customers bags made of recycled paper, plastic that can be composted or bags that can be reused. Violators would be required to pay a fine. The city's own Mayor, Gavin Newsom, endorses this bill.

According to a study by the UK-based Ban the Bag, only 0.5% of plastic bags are recycled. This means most bags are being thrown into waste dumps, where they will remain for hundreds of years.

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TO HONOURABLE mAYOR mICHAEL BLOOMBERG
pLEASE DO THE RIGHT THING BY NEW YORKERS AND THE ENVIRONMENT. AND  IMPLEMENT   BIO=DEGRADABLE PLASTIC BAGS IN NYC!
The environmental damage caused by plastic bags is enormous. Plastic makes up 80% of the volume of litter on roads, parks, and beaches and makes up 90% of floating litter in the ocean (BEC). In every square mile of ocean there are over 46,000 pieces of plastic. 
THANKYOU ON BEHALF OF THE ENVIRONMENT OF THE PLANET WE LIVE ON AND NYC.