If you buy things that can be used over and over instead of buying disposable
items that are used once and then thrown away, you will save precious natural resources.
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You’ll also save energy used to make them, and you’ll reduce the amount of landfill space we
need when they are thrown away.
When your family goes shopping, think about taking bags with you. Only
about 700 paper bags can be made from one 15 – year –old tree. A large grocery store can use
that many bags before lunch! Plastic bags start out as either oil or natural gas. Oil and natural
gas are non – renewable resources. This means they can’t be reused, and when they are all
gone, they are gone forever. And throw – away bags add a lot of pollution to the environment.
If plastic and paper bags are used once and go to landfills, they stay there for hundreds of
years some stores offer discounts for people who use their own bags. For every bag reused,
they give money back –usually about five cents for each bag