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Just about anywhere you do your grocery shopping, there’s a good chance that your visit will end with this question: paper or plastic? Many retailers today are working to change this. The costs of using one plastic bag may not seem high: at their cheapest, they only cost about a nickel a piece. However, when you consider the fact that more than a trillion bags are used worldwide in one year, the price paid by retailers is huge. The costs don’t end there, of course. In just the United States, 12 million barrels of oil are used each year to manufacture the bags. After being used once, about 100 billion plastic sacks are thrown away. If the costs of creating the bags aren’t enough to discourage you from using them, then maybe the realization of their impact on the environment will. One scientific estimate puts 46,000 pieces of plastic in every square mile of ocean. These bags wind up on beaches all over the world and lead to the deaths of sea turtles, fish, and other marine animals. About 70% of the plastic bags making their way to the ocean will ultimately sink to the ocean floor. These bags photodegrade,…