DISPOSABLE BAGS ARE SO LAST YEAR
As of July 1, 2009 IKEA stopped selling plastic bags in our Canadian stores. It's the final step in our Bag the Bag program that launched in October, 2007, when we began charging 5 cents a bag and donating all proceeds to Tree Canada. Over $280,000 was raised for Tree Canada through the campaign.
And in a recent survey, an overwhelming number of IKEA customers said they supported our move to bag the bag. So thanks!
Plastic bags and the environment
- Canadians take home an estimated 55 million plastic bags a week. That adds up to 2.86 billion per year.
(Source: Recycling Council of Ontario and the Canadian Plastics Industry Association)
- An estimated 500 billion to 1 trillion plastic bags are consumed worldwide. That translates to over one million per minute. North America goes through 110 billion plastic shopping bags annually.
(Source: www.bringyourbag.com)
- Single-use bags made of high-density polyethylene are the main culprit. Once brought into existence to tote purchases, they'll accumulate and persist on our planet for up to 1,000 years.
(Source: www.reusablebags.com)
- Each high quality reusable bag used has the potential to eliminate an average of 1,000 plastic bags over its lifetime.
(Source: www.reusablebags.com)
- Each year, plastic bags floating in the world's oceans kill millions of birds and an estimated 100,000 sea turtles and marine mammals.
(Source: Sierra Club)
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