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Dying in the United States is an $11 billion industry, with average funeral costs running about $7,000. Last year, with the population closer to 290 million, there were 2.4 million deaths. Aging boomers are expected to start swelling those ranks and by 2040, there will by an estimated 4 million deaths a year, double the number today.
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Although single use plastic bags are free to shoppers, the cost to our planet is enormous. Each year, billions of plastic bags end up as ugly, wind-blown litter, littering our countryside and great cities from New York to Tokyo.
Despite the common belief that plastic bags decompose and disappear, they actually persist breaking down into toxic bits that pollute our oceans, rivers, lakes and soil. In addition, countless animals, most notably marine mammals, choke to death after mistaking plastic bags for food.
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