photo: Justin Timberlake and Jessica Biel spent the 4th of July shopping at the Brentwood, CA Whole Foods.
A Day Without a Bag is an education and grassroots event started by the Los Angelese-based nonprofit Heal the Bay.
On Thursday, please tell your friends and family to forget the single-use bag at the store and "get hip" with a reusable bag.
I liked this suggestion from San Diego's Surfrider Chapter: ask the kids to remind you to bring your bags as part of earning their allowance.
I also got this info from Surfrider's San Diego Chapter-
DID YOU KNOW:
- Each year, an estimated 500 billion to 1 trillion plastic bags are consumed worldwide. That comes out to over one million per minute.
- Californians throw away 294,000,000 pounds of plastic bags every year, or 147,000 tons.
- 600 plastic bags are thrown away every second in California.
- Most of the bags we use are NOT recycled! They are littering our oceans, beaches, landfills and killing animals & birds.
If you are on Facebook then you can help promote the event by RSVP'ing to this event and this event.
photo: Justin and Jessica from the 2009 MET Costume Gala
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