A plastic grocery bag costs one cent to make, while a paper bag costs five cents ... such is our irrational public policy making.
The Greens’ regressive laissez faire agenda is (too) often fundamentally at odds with man’s natural trope to utilize his environment. — Anon.
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The notion is that single-use paper or plastic is wasteful. However paper recycles or decomposes easily while single-use plastic clogs up the recycling machinery or simply persists forever.
Is your hugging tree a larch or a loblolly pine?
It’s a mighty oak.
From which they might make the pulp and then the paper to make the grocery bag?
I use my own cloth bags and have for several years. Single-use paper or plastic -- bags, cups, straws, plates, utensils -- is clearly extravagant. No more physical magazines or media for me either. It is the way life used to be.
When we stop using petroleum, will we go back to killing whales for their blubber to grease our machinery? Or will we get rid of machines too?
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