Good points
•It is estimated that 500 billion to 1 trillion plastic bags are consumed each year worldwide – this works out to over 1 million bags per minute.
•A million sea birds and 100,000 animals such as whales, dolphins, turtles and seals die from plastic bags and other waste each year.
•Retail businesses spend about $4 billion each year on plastic bags.
•In the United States only 8 percent of the total plastic waste generated in 2010 was recycled.
•The United Nations Environment Program estimates that there are 46,000 pieces of plastic litter floating in every square mile of ocean.
•Americans throw away about 1 billion plastic bags a year, which is equivalent to dumping nearly 12 million barrels of oil.
I figure most people aren't going to bother to click on Tom's bag ban map, but this is something from that website which is well worth considering.