#bagitnyc

New Yorkers use 5 000 000 000 plastic bags a year.  From March 2015 to October 2015 I took pictures of them. Just 10 minutes of my time every day would get me to 1500 shots on instagram & posted as well on the bagitnyc.org map .

PlasticBags particularly litter the city as they easily fly from trash bins . They usually get stuck in trees, go down in sewers and end up in oceans where sea turtles mistake them for jellyfish .

PlasticBags do not biodegrade .  They break down in tiny particles that stay in our environment . They're made from plastic #2 for the ligher ones or #4 for the thickest ones and could apparently leach nonylphenol (source : @lifewithoutplastic ) .

Only around 5 % of plasticbags are "recycled" . It is hard for facilities to get clean material plusit is cheaper to product them from virgin oil , the recycling rate usually drops with the barrels' prices. (source : @npr ) . And it is not a closed loop : the downcycled material resulting from the transformation (like the black bags usually found at delis ) cannot be recycled again.  (source : the Sim Facility )

10 cents to less waste

For seven years, a bag tax has been blowing around City Hall.

On Monday, a group of City Council members, environmental groups and fifth graders from Brooklyn New School and P.S. 34 rallied in front of City Hall to urge passage of the tax by April 22nd, Earth Day.

The law would require retail and grocery stores to charge 10 cents…

BAN BAG WASTE RALLY

  Look in our trees, streets, gutters, blowing down the sidewalk and through the air.  Plastic bags are the most wasteful product ever made, used for 12 minutes and lasting upto 500 years, NYers use a staggering 10 billion of them a year and pay $4.5 million dealing with them.

    Rally To Stop New York City Plastic Bag Pollution!



NYC City Hall Park (Broadway, Park Row and Chambers St) 

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