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Mueller, J. (2010, March 9). //How Many Marine Mammals Did Your Plastic Grocery Bag Kill Today?// Retrieved 2012, from Care 2 website: [] Facts
 * 1) Did you know that 500 billion plastic bags are consumed on this planet every year
 * 2) Surfrider and others suggest we all reduce our plastic use and therefore plastic trash.
 * 3) more than a million seabirds and 100,000 marine mammals die every year from ingestion of or entanglement in plastics
 * 4) My hometown of Washington DC recently implemented a $0.05 bag tax (both plastic and paper), and the city and many merchants liberally distributed reusable grocery bags in the weeks leading up to and following the start of the tax.
 * 5) Plastic kills 1.5 million Marine Animals per year
 * 6) more than a million seabirds and 100,000 marine mammals die every year from ingestion of or entanglement in plastics
 * 7) Surfrider and others suggest we all reduce our plastic use and therefore plastic trash
 * 8) small actions add up and that the personal is where the political begins
 * 9) Washington DC recently implemented a $0.05 bag tax (both plastic and paper), and the city and many merchants liberally distributed reusable grocery bags in the weeks leading up to and following the start of the tax
 * 10) the nation’s capital changed their plastic bag habits and began toting the reusable totes or simply absorbed the tax