It is estimated that 100 billion plastic shopping bags are consumed annually in the U.S. according to the Wall Street Journal. Most plastic bags at the end of the landfill and the other is often out the rivers, lakes, ponds, streams or the sea, where the animals ingest them, or they will be confused. Household waste, shopping bags also increased by more than 25% on average in November and December. Taking into account the number of shopping bags are consumed and wasted time this season, now spread the word about the positive benefits of environmentally friendly, reusable shopping bags that affect our families, friends and communities.

Here in America, the San Jose City Council has now adopted the nation’s strictest bans plastic and paper shopping bags. This is a great victory in the Bay Area, a million plastic bags per year to accumulate along the San Francisco Bay. San Jose is the latest Bay Area city to take any ban on disposable shopping bags, while others include San Francisco and Palo Alto. Tracy Seipel at the San Jose Mercury News reported that in fact, a man who really jump-started it, another great example of the power of a person. Here is an excerpt of a:

While the visitor’s sister-in-law in Taipei, Kansai Chu, the choice of San Jose City Council in 2007, went shopping and was surprised to get charged for plastic grocery bags. The next day, he brought their own cloth bags back to the store. ‘I think the question,’ Chu said, ‘was, why did not San Jose?’ He began to talk of the town of environmental services staff, which was later transferred to the council committee meetings.

Save the Bay 4th Annual Report of the most eye-sites scattered around the area, further demonstrates the need to bring their own shopping bags. The 50-year environmental advocacy group focused on 10 specific areas of the bay sites, where nearly 15,000 plastic bags were retrieved in the last days of a report. Here is an excerpt of an article in the San Francisco Chronicle: Kelly Zito.

According to (Save the Bay) study, Californians use about 19 billion plastic bags each year, 3.8 million in the Bay Area. The average usage time of the bags – made using about 12 million barrels of oil each year in the U.S. – about 12 minutes. In addition to hundreds of years to take a plastic bag to decompose in landfills, the bags can also force shutdown, when incorporated into the traditional recycling equipment. Typically, the bags can get hurt or conveyor equipment, and should cut the hands.

Ten U.S. cities have banned plastic bags have in the past five years. Mexico City has yet to ban plastic shopping bags, which took effect in August. The city of 20 million, now faces the real effective enforcement, which is not easy when the Mexico City Chamber of Commerce estimates that 35,000 sale downtown Mexico City alone.

Bans plastic bags are not the only effective way to reduce the waste caused by harmful disposable bags. PlasTaxes a tax to consumers through the register of plastic bags when shopping, were first introduced to the Irish. John Roach, National Geographic reported last year, the world’s been building momentum since established a PlasTax Ireland in 2003. The Irish have shown how to reduce plastic bag consumption by 90% or more. Momentum is growing around the world, especially in America. Washington, DC, to Edmonds, WA North Pole, AK, communities and governments to encourage the international trend to reduce the harmful environmental effects of disposable shopping bags. Even large retail stores like Target and CVS to take action in the operative part of the record discounts to customers who choose to BYOB or just out of the items without a bag.

The naysayers, then convenient to ignore the momentum of the latter reduced the disposable waste bag. But to some of the widespread adoption of environmentally friendly, reusable bags are inevitable. Look at the way smoking is increasingly taboo in America. Indoor smoking bans have caught on like wild fire. Similarly, who is not using disposable bags will be taboo at some point in the near future? Use of eco friendly reusable grocery bags are strong steam. The individual decisions that we once used bags when shopping goes much farther than we think. This is what is BYOB, which pro-active example for others to set a trend that helps the planet, this is a valuable and finite resources provided by the animals’ habitats.

Of course, plastic bags and paper must be recycled, so it is important to remember that most major retailers, including Albertsons and Wal-Mart will recycle plastic bags for you. However, this strategy in May BYOB Shopping life so much easier, because you do not need to accumulate that the cupboard is full of plastic bags and understand what and when to do something. Management of some reusable bags in your car or backpack is a good way to get them, if necessary. Then return to the planet by taking into account that BYOB! Whether a grocery store, supermarket or while shopping, what is the difference for the environment, and helps raise awareness of a transaction at a time. With the fight to eliminate the waste of disposable bags we offer a gift to our planet, the greatest gift of all, sustainability and reusage.