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Posts Tagged ‘paper bags’
Green living, Pollution, Sep 7th, 2011,
If you buy groceries in Los Angeles, California, you soon may have to bring your own reusable shopping bags with you. A Los Angeles city councilman has proposed the outright ban of both plastic and paper disposable shopping bags at LA grocery stores. Instead of polluting the oceans with billions of plastic bags and adding to litter with wasteful paper bags, LA shoppers will be expected to use their own bags or purchase reusable ones at the city’s supermarkets. From the LA Times: By including paper bags in the ban, the proposal goes beyond similar measures taken recently by other…
Tags: ban, LA, Los Angeles, paper bags, plastic bags, Tesco, UK
Green living, Aug 25th, 2010,
I’d choose paper bags for my groceries, but since plastic bags are offered for free in shops and said to be not that bad for the environment, it’s hard to resist them. What is more eco-friendly: plastic or paper shopping bags? A: Neither. We have been conditioned to believe that paper bags are eco-friendly. Paper is made from trees, which are logged by clear-cutting methods. When the collected trees are dry, they are cooked into a pulp for many hours in a chemical mixture. The pulp is then washed and bleached; both stages require thousands of gallons of clean water….
Tags: biodegradable, bioplastics, chemicals, clear-cutting, eco-friendly, fertilizers, fossil fuel, GMO, paper bags, pesticides, petroleum, plastic bags, Pollution, re-usable, Recycling, shopping bags, TOXIC, transport
Climate Change, Green living, Nov 24th, 2009,
It used to be; the grocery bagger (back when we had these baggers) would ask us this question after we checked out. For most people, they just shrug and pick whichever one would be more convenient for them. Some have a crisis – which one really is better? Plastic is durable, but will stick around for centuries in a landfill. Paper bags, on the other hand, are biodegradable, but since it was made from trees, probably contributed to the deforestation of some faraway forest. Perhaps the best thing to do is toss a coin – either way, you’ll be harming…
Tags: paper bags, paper or plastic, plastic bags
