July 26th is Ban the Philadelphia Plastic Bag Day: Sign the Petition
Today, we’re dishing the dirty truth about plastic bags.
Each year…
- Americans use approximately 100 BILLION plastic bags
- …creating 300,000 tons of landfill waste
- The average US family takes home 1500 plastic shopping bags
- An estimated 500 billion to 1 trillion plastic bags are consumed worldwide
- … Which equals over 1 million plastic bags used per minute.
We’ve all been there: Sitting at a game or park, or walking around our neighborhoods to spot a plastic bag blowing in the wind. Philadelphia has enough litter, and a plastic bag ban is crucial to Philadelphia’s green movement. Plastic bags take 1000 years to break down, they endanger wildlife, pollute our cities, ground & waterways.
Philadelphia voted and rejected a plastic bag ban in June 2009. Yet, Mayor Nutter has declared consistently that Philly is going to be the #1 greenest city in the US.
We, Green Philly Blog, were frustrated with this defeat 3 years ago, but decided to unite our amazing Philadelphia Bloggers to address this issue on their blogs, social media outlets and in person. Together, we can reach a wide audience of Philadelphians.
How can you help?
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Take 2 minutes and sign your name on our Plastic Bag Petition.
- Share the petition!
- Bring your own reusable bag whenever you shop. And just say “no thanks” to plastic. 🙂
- We’ll do a recap on Friday, July 27th and send the full list to Mayor Nutter, Director of Sustainability Katherine Gajewski and City Council.
Although this is a crucial step, we know this is step one of our initiative. Don’t worry, we’re not stopping here and will continue to fight for a plastic bag ban in Philadelphia. But we can’t do it without your support!
Thanks for reading and participating!
Greening on,
Julie & Beth
Thank you to participating bloggers who are participating today (& Visit their sites!):
- Paige Wolf
- Philly Eco City
- The Waste Space
- Beach Chair Scientist
- United by Blue
- O’Boy! Organic
- greenlimbs
- Crafty Garden Mama
- Made in USA Challenge