Bay vs. Bag

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• The Plastics Industry Needs to Back Off

  The multi-billion dollar plastic bag industry is putting profits over the health of our waterways by infiltrating local communities, blocking proposals that reduce plastic bag use and suing cities that attempt to ban single-use plastic bags. It's time to stop them in their tracks. More

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• Our Work Around the Bay

  

  Save The Bay works with cities and counties around the Bay to protect our waterways from plastic bag pollution. We advocate for strong ordinances that ban plastic bags and place a charge on paper, with the ultimate goal of transitioning consumers to reusable bags. Learn more pending bag bans throughout the region.

• Facts about plastic bags

  

  Plastic bags pollute our waters, smother wetlands and entangle and kill animals. In fact, approximately one million plastic bags pollute San Francisco Bay each year. Bay trash flows into the ocean to join the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, where plastic particles are more abundant than plankton. Learn more about plastic bag pollution.