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Paper vs. Plastic:

Which is worse: Cutting down a tree to make a paper grocery bag, or using plastic garbage bags to dispose of our trash?

Ya gotta use one or the other to get rid of your garbage. I'd rather use a bag that quickly degrades so that I do not have to add plastic bags to the landfills.

I hear lots of disucssion about how "green" the totes are that many retailers are offering, but very little about the millions of plastic garbage bags that are tossed in landfills every week!

If I switch to totes, or if paper bags are eliminated, I will be forced to use plastic gabage bags. This seems like a step backwards to me unless I can be convinced that using plastic garbage bags is somehow "greener" than plastic...

We need to include the use of plastic garbage bags in this equation and disucssion.

posted 4 years, 6 months ago
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