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Help Save Our World
Anna and Crystal
Girl Scouts of Northern California
Troop #61067
A Silver Award Project
Plastic Bags
Approx. 380 billion plastic bags are used in the United States every year. That’s more than 1,200 bags per US resident, per year.
Only 1 to 2% of plastic bags in the USA end up getting recycled.
Plastic bags are often mistakenly ingested by animals, clogging their intestines which results in death by starvation.
Thousands of marine animals and more than 1 million birds die each year as a result of plastic pollution.
Other animals or birds become entangled in plastic bags and drown or can’t fly as a result.
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