Plastic Bags

• The average time that a plastic bag is used for is… 12 minutes.
• More than 1 million bags are used every minute.
• Annually approximately 500 billion plastic bags are used worldwide.
• For Australians that’s 10 million a day! Over 3.9 billion plastic checkout bags a year not including the ones in store or used for produce.
• Over 200,000 plastic checkout bags are dumped in landfills every hour.
• 50% of the plastic we use, we use just once and throw away.
• 1 reusable string bag replaces approx. 208 plastic bags each year.