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  • Reebok gets fines for using plastic bags
  • A step towards the right path - UAE to ban plastic bags from 2012

International

  • Uganda to jail people found using plastic bags
  • Tests on Hawaiian sand reveals more than 70% plastic
  • Over a billion plastic bags are used around the world everyday
  • Four to five trillion plastic bags are manufactured each year
  • Approximately 1 billion seabirds and mammals die per year by ingesting plastic bags
  • Video: Trash on a Spin Cycle
  • UNEP estimates large amounts of plastic waste in oceans
  • 267 marine species suffer from plastic debris
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Plastic debris pollutes the food chain

Image of plastic bags with marine life

Pollutants from plastics bioaccumulate and biomagnify in the muscle and fat of animals we eat. Infants exposed to PCBs suffer greater rates of infectious disease, lower birth rate, impaired memory skills, and difficulty in processing new information.

Biolice: biodegradable for the future

Close up image of Biolice bag

Biolice is the outcome of two major concerns: the consumer led demand for packaging which is harmless to the environment and the depletion of non-renewable energy, such as oil. Biolice is 100% biodegradable and complies with standards EN 13432, ASTM D 6400 and ISO 17088.

Change how we think about plastic

We are a "Throw away" society that creates long-term pollution problems in exchange for short-term ease of living. This only burdens the future further. Use less plastic bags.
Use only compostable bags and maintain them.
We use too many plastic bags Buy few bags.
Buy 100% compostable bags.
Return to glass and metal packaging.
Consumer assumes a majority of the responsibility for the end use of the product Support legislation that encourages producer liability for the end result and true cost of their products.