I certainly hope not, but you will if you don’t take action.  That’s right.  It has recently emerged that the average person in the UK does get through 13,000 in their lifetime.  Isn’t that horrendous?  But it just gets scarier:  in 2008 9.9 million plastic bags were distributed, that’s enough bags to fill 188 Olympic swimming pools, or stretch to the moon and back 7 times [source: edie].  The UK government are so shocked by these statistics that they’re going to do something about it in the form of a campaign encouraging us to re-use our plastic bags.  But, is that taking it far enough?

You can do more, by not taking plastic bags in the first place, and choosing a reusable bag that is not only made from something else that would have ended up in landfill somewhere.  So using recycled re-usable bags are just about as green as it gets.  To that end, you can buy one of these gorgeous bags, or you can save your pounds and make your own out of something that you already have.

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