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Plastic Bag Consumption
- Estimated number of all types of plastic bags used each year, world-wide: 4,000,000,000,000
- Number of plastic shopping bags used each year, in the US alone: 14,000,000,000
- Percentage of plastic bags returned for recycling: 1%
- Annual cost to US retailers for giving away "free" bags: $4,000,000,000
- Barrels of oil required for US annual plastic bag consumption: 12,000,000
- Number of marine animals killed each year due to plastic bags: 100,000
- Average number of pieces of plastic in each square mile of ocean: 46,000