01-18-2013, 02:04 PM
I asked questions of a very environmentally minded friend last week:.
You replace reusable bags for plastic and what stats for their use - how long to do they have to be used to be better since they all seem to be made of unnatural material like plastic. The handles break, they do get tears, and then they go to the landfill?
Other questions -
Are they made in fair trade wage countries?
Are the made and then SHIPPED to the US?
Are we still cutting down trees to make paper bags?
What i see is the only real reducing carbon footprint reuseable bag is the one our grannies sew for us from old clothing that would go to goodwill? (I see the grannies having a whole new industry!)
I agree plastic bags are bad, but are we replacing bad with just "a little less bad"?
But yes the plastic bag ban is a drop in the 10000 gal catchment tank... although 1 mm in the right direction!
You replace reusable bags for plastic and what stats for their use - how long to do they have to be used to be better since they all seem to be made of unnatural material like plastic. The handles break, they do get tears, and then they go to the landfill?
Other questions -
Are they made in fair trade wage countries?
Are the made and then SHIPPED to the US?
Are we still cutting down trees to make paper bags?
What i see is the only real reducing carbon footprint reuseable bag is the one our grannies sew for us from old clothing that would go to goodwill? (I see the grannies having a whole new industry!)
I agree plastic bags are bad, but are we replacing bad with just "a little less bad"?
But yes the plastic bag ban is a drop in the 10000 gal catchment tank... although 1 mm in the right direction!