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    Plastic bags have environmental benefits over paper bags by producing less CO2 emissions, using less water in production, and creating less solid waste. Recycling plastic film and bags provides feedstock for composite decking, with over 812 million pounds recycled in 2006 being enough to manufacture nearly 1.5 million decks. Recycling plastic bags helps reduce waste while providing materials for other products.

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    Plastic bags have environmental benefits over paper bags by producing less CO2 emissions, using less water in production, and creating less solid waste. Recycling plastic film and bags provides feedstock for composite decking, with over 812 million pounds recycled in 2006 being enough to manufacture nearly 1.5 million decks. Recycling plastic bags helps reduce waste while providing materials for other products.

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    Plastic bags have environmental benefits over paper bags by producing less CO2 emissions, using less water in production, and creating less solid waste. Recycling plastic film and bags provides feedstock for composite decking, with over 812 million pounds recycled in 2006 being enough to manufacture nearly 1.5 million decks. Recycling plastic bags helps reduce waste while providing materials for other products.

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    Plastic bags have environmental benefits over paper bags by producing less CO2 emissions, using less water in production, and creating less solid waste. Recycling plastic film and bags provides feedstock for composite decking, with over 812 million pounds recycled in 2006 being enough to manufacture nearly 1.5 million decks. Recycling plastic bags helps reduce waste while providing materials for other products.

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    Plastic Film and Bag

    RECYCLING FACTS
    Using paper bags doubles the amount of CO2 produced versus using plastic bags.1 Plastic bag production uses less than 4 percent of the water needed to make paper bags.2 Using paper bags creates almost 5 times more solid waste than using plastic bags.1 The dominant end use for recycled plastic lm/bags is composite decking.3 In 2006 more than 812 million pounds of plastic lm and bags were recycled which is enough feed stock to manufacture nearly 1,500,000 composite lumber decks.4

    1. Boustead Consulting, 2007 2. Swiss Agency for Environment, Forests & Landscape SAEFL, 1998 & Boustead Consulting, 2005 3. Moore Recycling Associates, 2007 4. Moore Recycling Associates & Trex Corporation, 2007

    For more information including where to recycle and how to set up a recycling program go to www.plasticbagrecycling.org.

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