Interesting Canadian Facts

It is interesting to note that the average Canadian household keeps over 750 plastic bags on hand at any given time, making Canada #1 in plastic bag attainment.

On average, a typical German family--#2 in bag attainment--will have just 22 plastic bags per household, Sweden 16, New Zealand 4, USA 11. At 750 plastic bags per household, not only is Canada #1 in plastic bag attainment, but it has more plastic bags than the top 100 countries in the world combined.

98% of Canadian household collected plastic bags will come from Loblaw's, IGA, Dominion, Sobey's and Wal-Mart. Less than .001% of plastic bags will come from *No-Frill* grocery stores. Researchers contribute this to the fact that Canadians are cheap. *No-Frill* bags cost 5 cents, while regular grocery store bags are free.

Canadians find many uses for collected plastic grocery bags, but the number one use is putting garbage into them. The second most common use is putting their lunch into them. Sometime's Canadians will forget and put trash into a plastic bag and then unwittingly put their lunch into them. Canada also ranks #1 in the world for plastic bag injuries. Researchers are dumbfounded why Canadians put garbage into plastic bags only to take these same bags and put them into regular plastic garbage bags. Most researchers attribute this to insanity.

Researchers were also stunned to find that many Canadians will buy bigger plastic IKEA bags in order to store regular plastic bags in them. Once again, insanity is the only viable reason researchers could find why Canadians do that.