There are oodles of icky plastic bag statistics out there. This month at Tree Hugging Family, our focus is reusable bags and our June challenge is to reduce plastic bag consumption. There are plenty of good reasons to do so.
Reusable Bags offers these (and other) facts related to plastic bags:

500 billion to 1 trillion plastic bags are used per year – or one million per minute. Insanity; um yeah. Most don’t make it to a recycling facility.
“According to Australia’s Department of Environment, Australians consume 326 plastic bags per person, per year.”
“Plastic bags are among the 12 items of debris most …read more

Me actually – I don’t like plastic bags. However, if you’re going to have them why not recycle them into lovely flowers.

Learn how at one of the better new green blogs to appear last year – Keetsa. Can you imagine a recycled plastic bag wedding!