Canvas Bags Now Available!
We're Going Green!
In conjunction with our Summer Reading theme, "Read Green, Live Green," Danbury Library is going green by eliminating plastic bags.
We now offer canvas bags for purchase. These long-lasting canvas bags can carry your items to and from home. They are available at the Front Desk for $4.00 each or 2 for $7.00.
Did you know? Some facts on the real cost of free plastic bags:
Production Costs - The production of plastic bags requires petroleum and often natural gas, both nonrenewable resources that increase our dependency on foreign suppliers.
Consumer Costs - Annual cost to U.S. retailers alone is estimated at $4 billion. Who do you think pays those costs? Yes, you, the consumer, in the form of higher prices.
Disposal and Litter Costs - In a landfill, plastic bags take up to 1,000 years to degrade. Plastic bags don't biodegrade, they photo-degrade, breaking down into smaller and smaller toxic bits polluting our soil, river, lakes and oceans.
Environmental Impact - Hundreds of thousands of sea turtles, whales and other marine mammals die every year from eating discarded plastic bags mistaken for food. Turtles think the bags are jellyfish, their primary food source. On land, many cows, goats and other animals suffer a similar fate to marine life when they accidentally ingest plastic bags while foraging for food.
Consumption Facts - An estimated 500 billion to one trillion plastic bags are consumed world-wide every year. In the U.S. alone, an estimated 12,000,000 barrels of oil are required to produce the 100 billion consumed annually.
Do you love going to the movies but always have to visit the restroom during the best part? Problem solved. 