According to U.S. Bureau of the Census, there are 11,459 households within Cheboygan County, Michigan. If each uses 9 plastic shopping bags per week, a total of 5.3 million plastic bags are distributed within Cheboygan County, Michigan, each year.
According to the EPA, fewer than 5% of the plastic bags used in the U.S. are recycled. so 5.0 million of the plastic bags that are distributed within Cheboygan County are sent to landfills.
According to
www.worldwatch.org/node/5565, plastic bags take thousands of years to decompose.
According to the Great Lakes Alliance on Adopt-A-Beach, plastic bags make up 13% of the trash on the beaches within Cheboygan County, Michigan.
Animals, including turtles, fish, and birds, are killed when they ingest plastic bags.
