Plastic bags are the Enemy

At the supermarket do you see people coming in with their own bags and you can’t be bothered to take your own, so you just use new ones each time. Well with every new bag you use you could be putting planet Earth in danger.

WE USE 17 BILLION plastic bags a year, that’s 350 a year for every adult! And the shocking thing is, each bag is used for only 10 minutes before being thrown away. The whole point of a plastic bag it seems is to go straight to landfill. Plastic bags account for 2.8 million tonne of plastic waste produced in the UK every year. Some of this waste ends up in the sea which has resulted in every square mile of ocean containing an average of 46,000 pieces of plastic, endangering sea birds and other species.

The maximum "plastic density" was 200,000 pieces of debris per square kilometre-BBC

Another plastic bag downer is that they are not biodegradable. They stick around on the planet for hundreds of years, contaminating the soil on which we live and the water which we drink.

One way to control the situation is to make a fabric bag this will also help reduce the amounts of clothes ending up in landfill. If you have a spare t-shirt, jumper or curtain you can just cut it up and make a new bag from it. This will reduce how much you contribute to landfills, hitting two climate change issues with one bag for life.