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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: i-node who wrote (804436)8/30/2014 4:43:21 PM
From: tejek  Read Replies (2) of 1578828
 
"The UK Environment Agency found reusable and paper bags are worse for the environment than plastic bags. One cotton bag has as much climate impact as 173 plastic bags. Cotton bags also increase fertilizer runoff, leading to oceanic “dead zones” that harm marine animals."

First, many of the bags are studier plastic bags..............mine are made of acrylic.........others of burlap. Secondly, the plastic bags were typically used once and thrown away or recycled. They don't bio degrade like a cotton bag would and the plastic bags were causing problems for marine animals who were sucking them in along with food and choking.

And from the same study you cited:
The findings suggest that, in order to balance out the tiny impact of each lightweight plastic bag, consumers would have to use the same cotton bag every working day for a year, or use paper bags at least thrice rather than sticking them in the bin or recycling.

Most paper bags are used only once and one study assumed cotton bags were used only 51 times before being discarded, making them – according to this new report – worse than single-use plastic bags.

I have had the same bags for 2 1/2 years and still going strong. I don't know how many times I have used them but its been way, way more than 51 times...........at least double that number. Its too bad the UK study got it so wrong.


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