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Things you need to know about plastic bags
- 4 million New Zealanders use over 22 million plastic bags each week. That's more than 5 for every person.
- The amount of petroleum used to make one plastic bag is enough to drive a car about 115m.
- The use of plastic check check out bags can be counted in minutes. However, plastic bags can take up to 500 years to break down in a landfill.
- 40,000 plastic bags are dumped in landfills every hour in New Zealand.
- Plastic kills at least 100,000 birds, whales, seals and turtles every year. The body decomposes and the plastic is released back into the enviroment.
- Almost half the litter escapes from landfills is plastic - much of this plastic bags
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