A lot of people like to go "deer hunting" where I live, and I would like to encourage people who hunt to hunt down and remove litter from the environment instead of animals.
Fun Fact: The average plastic shopping bag only weighs 5 grams, which means that these 10,000 of them weighs a little over 100 pounds.
Due to the fact that a plastic bag weighs practically nothing, if it gets left outdoors, all it can take is a little wind for it to start moving (or even start flying) and there is no telling where it could ultimately end up.
A lot of the bags I found had a small warning on them saying that they were a choking hazard for young children, but not one of them mentioned that they are also a choking hazard for wildlife and that countless animals die every year due to these bags ending up in the environment.
Some of the bags I found still had a receipt in them, and often times it would say that the customer just bought something small like like a pack of cigarettes or an energy drink. (Which they probably removed from the bag as soon as the cashier handed it to them.)
Giving a customer a bag if they are only purchasing something small like a candy bar seems so unnecessary and wasteful to me, that it makes me think of when the comedian "Mitch Hedberg" was talking about whenever he's walking down the street and someone hands him a flyer...
"It's kind of like they're saying, "Here, you throw this away."
In total, I ended up finding bags from about 250 different stores. (Including some stores that went out of business years ago!)
Below is a list of every store I found bags from, as well as exactly how many bags I found from each store, and if you click on the name of a store you can see an actual picture I took of all the bags that I found from that particular store...
