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Hey you no how when you go shopping for food or shopping in general and u can reuse your plastic bags, or you can buy reusable bags at almost any stores now-a-days. Walmart, Redners, and alot of regular stores sell them for jut $1.06. Thats a good price to help save the planet.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2003/09/0902_030902_plasticbags.html -Only 1 percent of plastic bags are recycled worldwide -- about 2 percent in the U.S. -- and the rest, when discarded, can persist for centuries - made from petroleum or natural gas -One recent study found that the inks and colorants used on some bags contain lead, a toxin -stray bags cartwheel down city streets, alight in trees, billow from fences like flags, clog storm drains, wash into rivers and bays and even end up in the ocean, washed out to sea -sometimes floating bags may look like jellyfish to some sea creatures then the bags get stuck in their mouth -According to the Blue Ocean Society for Marine Conservation, more than a million birds and 100,000 million marine mammals and sea turtles die every year from eating or getting entangled in plastic. -46,000 pieces of plastic litter floating in every square mile of ocean -just think like this hat if your cat, dog, bird, etc. would get caught in a plastic bag wouldnt you feel like it was partly your fault. You know you litter, dont deny it. Just think like this what if someone elses animal would injest something like a plastic bag that you threw away it would be your fault.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKaSkpvmJNw&feature=player_embedded


 * 500 billion and trillion bags are consumed world wide each year.


 * ppl use 1 million bags per minute.

-thats 24 bags a month -thats 288 bags a year -thats 22,176 bags in an average lifetime
 * if we use a cloth bag we ca save 6 bags a week.


 * if one out of 5 ppl in our country did this we would save 1,330,560,000,000 bags over our lifetime.
 * China will save 37 million barrels of oil each year due to there ban of free plastic bags.


 * REMEMBER TO RECYCLE YOUR PLASTIC BAGS, SAVE THE WORLD AND YOUR FUTURE!**

**GREEN** http://livingthelowincomelife.wordpress.com/2009/03/13/how-to-reuse-those-plastic-bags-and-baggies/ They make great trash bags. You can reuse them at the store. Our grocery store gives us .05 for every bag that we reuse. You can take them to the grocery store (if yours participates) and put them in the recycling bin. Use them to carry things that you are donating in. Have your children use them to pack what they want to take with them when they are spending a night with a friend. Use them when cleaning out litter boxes. Use them as bags for dog bombs: Scoop the poop.

 http://www.treehuggingfamily.com/one-big-reason-to-avoid-plastic-shopping-bags/ bags are not biodegradable they take up to 1000 years to brake down if animals eat plastic bags they not only hurt them but they hurt us to bc of the food chain

http://www.poconorecord.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080506/MULTIMEDIA02/80505016 less then 1% of bags are recycled it costs $4000 to process and recycle a ton of bags bags account for 10% of the garbage in the ocean 200 different types of sea life die from plastic bags if you use a cloth bag you can save about 6 bags a week if one out of five people used a cloth bag we wold save 1,330,560,000,000 over our life time

http://www.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUSTRE48O7IY20080925 http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0721-04.htm http://www.cawrecycles.org/issues/current_legislation/ab2449_06 http://savetheplasticbag.com/ReadContent606.aspx http://www.venturacountystar.com/news/2008/nov/30/wind-blown-bags-create-plastic-litter/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk-irnqoqus http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nviNyy2Pdvg http://www.americanchemistry.com/s_acc/sec_news_article.asp?CID=206&DID=9358     http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_many_plastic_bags_does_the_average_store_use_in_one_day

__Questions to ask stores__
do they (the cashier) use an excessive amount of bags? for example one bag for a box a cereal and a different bag for apples. how many bags do one person use during their shift? how many bags do they use in one day? how much do bags cost? is there an alternative? how much would the alternative cost?

__Facts__
-plankton eat broken down plastic from bags, fish eat planton, we eat fish. WERE KILLING ourselves!

-10,000 barrols of oil are used to make 100 million plastic bags.

Nothing was added today?? ~Shaw 4.14.09
**Please don't move my notes. I use them to see how far you have progressed since last time. You have a lot of links but not a lot of conversation about how this is really going to come together and make a movie. If you need help, let me know. Shaw 4.27.09

---   **FOR MORIAH, CHELSEA, AND RACHEL

Moriah- so were going to which store today?

Chels- were supposed to go to the IGA but i need to be home around 4:30.

chels y does it say "chelsea hoffmans bib" i thought we all did one?

what music are we going to use....if u can think of any tell shaw...i was thinking of that really sad song on that one commercal with all the dogs tht dont have homes but 2 other groups r using it so i think we should find a different one.

Ill look up some sad songs today and get back to you, chelz are you coming with for the walmart interview? on wednesday Songs- i will remember you, Sarah McLachlan/ Run- snow Patrol/ concrete angel-martina mcbride

sad pictures

Chels-Yea i kno but i wanted to keep that there until we needed all of them cause im not sure if i have all mine until then its gonna stay up. i can come with. i get back from tech about 3:20. r u guys going to download the IGA interview?, and start making the film that way i have stuff to do tmmro in class.

Moriah- i downloaded the video and added my bib so edit all you want!