According to some estimates, Between 500 billion and a trillion plastic grocery bags are used globally each year. The WorldWatch Institute states it takes 430,000 gallons of oil to produce 100 million plastic bags - so that comes to a staggering 4,300,000 gallons or 16,277,270 litres of oil to make a trillion bags.

It's been great to see a concerted effort by many individuals, some towns and states to ban disposable plastic shopping bags; but even if you have e started to kick the disposable plastic bag habit, chances are you may still have a few (dozen/hundred) floating around the place. 

If you're into crafts, you can put these bags to good use so they don't wind up in landfill. Even if your house is totally a bag free zone and you have the time to spare, get your friends to give you theirs - you'll be able to create heavy duty reusable shopping bags they can take to the store so they won't have an excuse for gathering more in the future :).