There are a few major bag making companies who sell their bags to companies like Safeway, Wal-Mart, Home Depot, and also many other small businesses like Rusticana. It is estimated that humans use 500,000,000,000-1,000,000,000,000 plastic bags per year. In other words, that’s almost 1 million plastic bags used per minute. It's extremely difficult to find out how many bags one company uses in a month so I made a realistic estimate. Safeway has 1700 different locations. Lets say each store uses 250 000 bags a year. That tallies up to around 50-80 million bags that Safeway uses a year. When you combine other corporations like Sobey's, Canadian Superstore etc.. it isn't hard to believe that amount, especially when that's just shopping bags. Consider how many Zip-Lock or garbage bags we use. Or the plastic bags that cover your new furniture. The numbers start to get ridiculous.
So who manages all of these bags? Who ships them to the retailers? It isn't just one large company but rather a large amount of semi-large businesses. According to the WSJ Target, the second-largest retailer in the U.S., purchases 1.8 billion bags a year.
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