Jeff Ashby, Director of Rocky Mountain Recycling, provided me with some interesting facts about distributing plastic bags. To really appreciate this process, though, you'll have to take note on a couple of figures (it's basic algebra, folks, nothing to get alarmed about!). Ok, on average, 65 bags = 1 lb. of plastic bags. And 1200 lb = 1 bale of plastic bags. In addition, each truckload carries about 40,000 lbs of plastic bags in bale form.
Given these numbers, that means that one truckload carries over 2 million bags in a shipment. WHAT?!? What does two million plastic bags look like? Well, wonder no more: Jeff gave me a picture of him standing on top of 2 million plastic bags. So click here to see the monstrosity for yourself!
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Just looked at the photo you mention. WOAH! All the more reason to use and reuse cloth! Thank you for the informative visual.
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