Issues With Plastic Bags

Australians pay a big price for using plastic eco-bags from the destruction they cause to our unique natural environment, to the financial cost to the retail sector of supplying plastic bags to clientelethe price we pay for using plastic bags really adds up.

A culture has evolved in Australia where plastic bags are seen as free and generously available to shoppers. Ecoezi has come for all Australian to stop, re think and change the way we carry our shopping. Australian currently use about 5 Billion plastic shopping bags a year that is about 13 million bags a day Plastic bags are in our hands for and average of fifteen minutes but remain in our environment for up to 1000 years. Around 80 million of these bags end up blowing around as litter, or worse still end up in our waterways harming our marine life. The World Wide Fund for Nature estimates 100,000 turtles, whales, seals and birds die an agonizing death each year through the ingestion of plastic bags, becoming entangled or suffocating in them.

Ecoezi know that these bags are very suitable and we also know people will find it difficult to change such a repetitive habit. Plastic bags are in our hands for and average of Fifteen minutes but remain in our environment for up to 1000 years.