Did you know that the world consumes more than 500,000,000,000 plastic bags a year....that's nearly one million per minute ! What's worse is that plastic bags will kill over 100,000 sea turtles and other marine life each year because the animals mistake them for jellyfish or other food.The problem is, plastic just never goes away... it takes over 1000 years for plastic to degrade in a landfill. Plastic is polluting our air and contaminating or waters and soil. Did you know it takes something like 6 million barrels of oil each year just to produce the amount of plastic bags we consume... and we have even to touched upon our intake of plastic bottles! But I'm not writing this article to lecture you on the hazards and expense of plastic. Most of us already know it's a problem. I'm writing to discuss solutions and what others are doing and what you can do to help.