To continue the spirit of Earth Day (April 22, 2009) I have added this blog addition about plastic bags. Why are plastic bags bad for the bay? Well as Imp has observed plastic bags are hazardous to devils! Or ANY critter for that matter. Not to mention polluting our waterways. In fact, approximately one million plastic bags pollute San Francisco Bay each year. Trash in the Bay flows into the ocean to join the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a floating island of trash estimated at twice the size of Texas where plastic particles are more abundant than plankton.

Did you know?
Up to 90% of floating debris is plastic, which never biodegrades.
Plastic trash has entangled, suffocated, or poisoned at least 267 known animal species worldwide.
A study found an average of three pieces of trash along every foot of streams leading to San Francisco Bay – half of which is plastic.
1.37 million plastic bags were removed from coastal areas worldwide on just one day.

What can you do to stop the addition to plastic bags???
For starters…go to this the Save the Bay campaign website called The Bag vs. The Bay and learn about ways you can help your community to stop using plastic bags. Watch their video about plastic in the oceans (posted above). It is very well done and gets the message across in a creative way.