July 3 is International Plastic Bag-Free Day.
Tell our readers why that is so very important.
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We use plastic bags almost every day, but only for 25 minutes. Then, the bag will take 100 to 500 years to break down.
- If we continue at this rate, what will become of our environment? Our wildlife?
- How can we clean up the plastic bag waste that litters our city streets, farmlands, and waterways?
- What are our alternatives to single-use plastic bags? Economic factors? Convenience?
- What does our use of plastic bags say about our culture, about our commitments (or lack thereof) to our future?
- What are some of the different cultural approaches to the use of bags?
- What statement does a man make when he brings his own reusable bags to a grocery store?
- Is there an intersectional aspect of 21st-century masculinity and plastic bags?
- How have you men been ridiculed for carrying a reusable bag and how did you handle it?
- How are plastic bags adversely affecting the health of humans and what can we do about it?
International Bag Free Day is July 3 every year.
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