Americans go through 100 billion single-use plastic bags every year—or 325 per person— that end up in landfills, streams and lakes, where they take 10 to 20 years to degrade.
Tatiana Homonoff, Cornell University
Americans go through 100 billion single-use plastic bags every year—or 325 per person— that end up in landfills, streams and lakes, where they take 10 to 20 years to degrade.