Think before you toss that plastic bag ...

 A group of environmentalists - one wearing a suit made of plastic shopping bags to illustrate the amount of waste the average person creates in a year - Sunday stumped for reusable bags at Jones Beach.

The event, organized by Farmingdale-based Citizens Campaign for the Environment, featured a traveling environmental activist who calls himself the Plastic Bag Monster.

The monster, also known as Chico, Calif.-based reusable bag salesman Andy Keller, wore a suit made of 500 plastic bags, which he said is the average number used by an American every year. Yesterday's windy conditions caused one of the bags to float away, prompting Keller to chase it down and recover it.

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