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    Safety Moment - Plastic Bags

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    Between 500 billion and 1 trillion plastic shopping bags are used worldwide each year, with less than 1% being recycled. Plastic bags are made from polyethylene, a petroleum-based plastic, and it costs $4,000 to recycle 1 ton of plastic bags which then only sells for $32. As plastic bags are not recycled, they end up as debris in oceans and break down into toxic microplastics. In response, several countries have implemented bans on plastic bags to reduce their environmental impact and save on oil usage. Small actions like avoiding using one plastic bag per day can collectively save millions of bags from pollution and waste.

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    Safety Moment - Plastic Bags

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    Between 500 billion and 1 trillion plastic shopping bags are used worldwide each year, with less than 1% being recycled. Plastic bags are made from polyethylene, a petroleum-based plastic, and it costs $4,000 to recycle 1 ton of plastic bags which then only sells for $32. As plastic bags are not recycled, they end up as debris in oceans and break down into toxic microplastics. In response, several countries have implemented bans on plastic bags to reduce their environmental impact and save on oil usage. Small actions like avoiding using one plastic bag per day can collectively save millions of bags from pollution and waste.

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    Between 500 billion and 1 trillion plastic shopping bags are used worldwide each year, with less than 1% being recycled. Plastic bags are made from polyethylene, a petroleum-based plastic, and it costs $4,000 to recycle 1 ton of plastic bags which then only sells for $32. As plastic bags are not recycled, they end up as debris in oceans and break down into toxic microplastics. In response, several countries have implemented bans on plastic bags to reduce their environmental impact and save on oil usage. Small actions like avoiding using one plastic bag per day can collectively save millions of bags from pollution and waste.

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    Safety Moment - Plastic Bags

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    Vasanth Kumar
    Between 500 billion and 1 trillion plastic shopping bags are used worldwide each year, with less than 1% being recycled. Plastic bags are made from polyethylene, a petroleum-based plastic, and it costs $4,000 to recycle 1 ton of plastic bags which then only sells for $32. As plastic bags are not recycled, they end up as debris in oceans and break down into toxic microplastics. In response, several countries have implemented bans on plastic bags to reduce their environmental impact and save on oil usage. Small actions like avoiding using one plastic bag per day can collectively save millions of bags from pollution and waste.

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    Somewhere between 500 billion and 1

    trillion plastic shopping bags are


    consumed worldwide each year.
    Plastic shopping bags are
    made from polyethylene,
    a thermoplastic made from oil.
    Less than 1% of those bags are
    recycled.

    Why?
    It costs $4,000.00 to process and
    recycle 1 tonne of plastic bags.

    That same 1 tonne of recycled


    plastic sells on the commodities
    market for $32.00.
    Where do they go instead?
    Plastic bags account for over 10
    percent of the debris washed up on
    world coastlines.
    Over time they break down into
    smaller, more toxic petro-polymers.
    In 2005 Rwanda
    banned plastic bags
    Bangladesh has
    banned plastic bags
    Western India, Botswana, Kenya,
    Tanzania, South Africa, Taiwan,
    and Singapore have also banned
    or are moving toward banning the
    plastic bag.
    China has banned free plastic bags
    That ban saves China 37 million
    barrels of oil each year.
    What can you do?
    If every person in this meeting
    avoided using just 1 plastic bag
    each day, how many bags would
    be saved in 1 year?
    If every SNC-Lavalin employee
    avoided using 1 plastic bag,
    that’s 45,000 bags saved today.
    315,000 bags this week…
    1,350,000 bags this month...
    More than 162,000,000
    bags in a year.

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