Single-use plastic bags are all over our grocery stores, but do you know where they end up when you toss them out? In a landfill, or worse, our water supply and oceans. Think about it: if one person comes out of the grocery store with 10 plastic bags full of groceries once a week, that's 520 plastic bags a year. Multiply that by 8.26 million, the population of Virginia, and that's 4,295 million plastic bags a year going into landfills and polluting the earth. These bags pollute our environment by ending up in landfills, waterways, and even being ingested by animals. Organic cotton bags are a viable alternative to paper and plastic bags. These bags don't pollute the Earth and don't get tossed away after each use. Single use plastic bags are simply wasteful and unnecessary. Tell Governor McAuliffe we say NO MORE to plastic bags in Virginia!
