Battle of the Bags: An interacive Paper vs Plastic website
A couple of months ago I wrote an article on paper bags vs plastic bags. The general conclusion was that both were almost as bad as each other. Plastic did edge out paper by a small margin, but this all depends on how you measure it.
MSNC has created a cool little website called Battle of the Bags: Paper vs Plastic. This is an interactive website providing a great overview of the issue. Again, the general consensus is that paper and plastic are just as bad as each other and it’s much better to get yourself a reusable bag. But the site does provide some useful tips for those occasions when you forget your reusable bag.
Tags: eco friendly bags, plastic bags, reusable grocery bags, Sustainability
July 26th, 2011 at 10:45 pm
We are going to spend billions of dollars to try and prevent a climate change of perhaps 1.0c over the next 90 years when even the Kyoto protocol states that it may not work. Because of the allure to the enviromentalists, this has overshadowed the fact that if population growth is not addressed in merely 50 years the Earth will not have enough resources to feed the population. If that is true then you will not have to worry about how hot the planet gets