Disposal

Sadly, only 1 in every 500 bags is recycled. In theory, this is what that would look like

When you take 1trillion and divide by 500 you get 2 000 000 000. Subtract 2 000 000 000 from 1 000 000 000 000 and you're left with 980 000 000 000 bags being thrown into landfills every-single-year. Imagine how much plastic that is. We have so much potential to do so many great things with that plastic but instead we throw it away and let is sit in our landfills for 500-1000 years before it photo degrades. This is not bio degrading when the material is eventually converted back into something useful for the earth. Photo degrading is when the bag breaks up into smaller pieces spreading itself across an even farther area.

A lot of human's plastic waste ends up in the Pacific Garbage Patch, which is a larger area than Texas, the toxins from the plastics are absorbed by plankton, which is eaten by fish, whom are eaten by whales. Then we hunt the whales or harvest the fish and by the time the plastic toxins have reached humans they are at an extremely dangerous level of lethality. This is known as bio-magnification.