If the true cost of these bags was included in the purchase price, it would be impossible to purchase them because petroplastic would be way too expensive! It’s the same way with food – if the true cost of eating the chemicals and additives were included in the price of non-organic food, then ORGANIC food would be less expensive – because it doesn’t hurt the earth and the humans who eat it!

Paul Hawken talks about this strategy in his wonderful book: The Ecology of Commerce. It’s a MUST read! A blueprint for how to have business “save the world” by applying a green tax, UNTIL they do the right thing! (he goes into a lot of detail). Check it out – you’ll never see the world the same way after reading it!

The reason it’s still there is because plastic NEVER biodegrades- it “photo-degrades” which means that the sun makes it brittle, and it breaks into pieces – smaller and smaller. A scientist actually identified a piece of plastic that had a smaller diameter than a strand of human hair!

So, animals all the up and down the food chain are mistaking plastic for food, and ingesting it. Then it clogs up their digestive systems and kills them. Or, as with people ingesting phthalates from plastic, it disrupts their endocrine systems. It may be one of the reasons that many Americans are fat, and can’t do anything about it! Europe outlawed phthalates 8 years ago! But not here where business rules!