battle of the bag

When watching the videos, I never realized how many plastic bags a single person, let alone a family of four uses on average. In the video the family of four averaged twenty bags per week. This really made me think about my consumption, and in doin so I have realized that I use about five per week on average. One way in which people are trying to solve the problem at the local level is by banning the use of them all together. Another way in which people are trying to solve the problem locally is by using cloth bags, and example would be of the 'im not a plastic bag' cloth bags. This problem needs to be solved on local levels, then eventually it can have a possibility of being solved globally. I think this because solution has to start out on a small scale, and eventually it can be applied to a larger scale. On the side of the manufacturer's the bags arent so much misunderstood to me, but more mis-used. They are more mis-used then misunderstood to me because most of the bags are 100% recyclable, but yet they are seen in every dump in large quantities. So if people actually disposed of them properly, there wouldnt be a problem.