the Malaysian Plastics Manufacturers Association estimates that the average citizen uses 300 plastic bags a year. Based on a population of 30 million, this adds up to nine billion bags used and thrown away, annually.
Plastic bags leach chemicals and toxins into surrounding ecosystems, clog up the ocean, threaten human and animal populations, and when incinerated, release greenhouse gases into the environment.
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