You use, you throw. Then?

Ever wondered what happens to that free plastic bag after you throw it away? If you live in a rich economy, it gets buried into landfill. It takes serious resources to collect them, palette them, transport them and bury them into a landfill. You think the bags are free but your tax dollars are spent to do all these elaborate things. Then, your landfill has to be “managed”. This illustration from LJWorld.com shows how:

It may all look very pretty, like a lady with cosmetics on her face can, but underneath all this that land is dead. The surface will grow a façade to please you but it’s just that, a façade. Switch to reusable bags instead. That buck or two you spend on buying a cloth bag is less than what this charade costs, because it is repeated every day.