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Its very annoying to see that even for a drink in Macau you are given plastic bags. Tell us what is your solution to saying NO to plastic bags? Some Scary Facts About Plastic Bags • Plastic bags don’t biodegrade, they photodegrade – breaking down into smaller and smaller toxic bits. • A plastic bag can take between 400 to 1,000 years to break down in the environment. • As it breaks down, plastic particles contaminate soil and waterways and enter the food web when animals accidentally ingest them. • In the ocean, these particles eventually end up in massive whirlpool-like currents in the oceans called gyres. Our planet has five major gyres. • In some locations, there is 46 times more plastic than available food for marine animals. • Plastic bags cause over 100,000 sea turtle and other marine animal deaths every year. • Nearly 90% of the debris in our oceans is plastic. • Plastic bags are among the 12 items of debris most often found in coastal cleanups, according to the nonprofit Center for Marine Conservation. • Plastic debris accumulates persistent organic pollutants (POPs) like PCBs and DDT at high concentrations. Many of these pollutants are known endocrine disruptors. • When fish and other marine animals ingest plastic debris, they are also ingesting these toxins. • If the food we eat is contaminated with toxins, we will be too. Sources: International Fund for Animal Welfare, the Environmental Protection Agency, NOAA National Ocean Service, and other agencies or persons as cited.

We would love to hear your ideas on how to stop food wastage. Key facts on food loss and waste you should know! • Roughly one third of the food produced in the world for human consumption every year — approximately 1.3 billion tonnes — gets lost or wasted. • Food losses and waste amounts to roughly US$ 680 billion in industrialized countries and US$ 310 billion in developing countries. • Industrialized and developing countries dissipate roughly the same quantities of food — respectively 670 and 630 million tonnes.  • Fruits and vegetables, plus roots and tubers have the highest wastage rates of any food. • Global quantitative food losses and waste per year are roughly 30% for cereals, 40-50% for root crops, fruits and vegetables, 20% for oil seeds, meat and dairy plus 35% for fish. • Every year, consumers in rich countries waste almost as much food (222 million tonnes) as the entire net food production of sub-Saharan Africa (230 million tonnes). • The amount of food lost or wasted every year is equivalent to more than half of the world's annual cereals crop (2.3 billion tonnes in 2009/2010). • Per capita waste by consumers is between 95-115 kg a year in Europe and North America, while consumers in sub-Saharan Africa, south and south-eastern Asia, each throw away only 6-11 kg a year. Source: http://www.fao.org/