A study conducted by HSU's Lonny Grafman and his students in Engineering 308 found that the community of Arcata uses between 3 to 5 million plastic bags every year! Shocking for a community that is touted as environmentally friendly. The San Francisco Examiner covered this story (http://www.examiner.com/recycling-in-san-francisco/hsu-students-study-plastic-bag-use-arcata ) and more details can be found at: http://www.appropedia.org/Arcata_plastic_bags.
If you would like to see this statistic drastically reduced, please join our mission to Ban the Bag by supporting Surfrider in the effort to ban single use plastic bags throughout Humboldt County. Contact mjhumboldtsurfrider@yahoo.com for more information.
