Between 500 billion and a trillion plastic grocery bags are consumed worldwide each year... WOW!
Considering the lifecycle of a plastic grocery bag, you use it for what? Thirty minutes? Transporting groceries to car, then groceries to kitchen? Ehh, some get reused in trash cans, or for dirty diapers, and then go to live for hundreds of year in a landfill. Between one and three percent don't even make it to the land fill, so they end up polluting the environment (often our oceans) for the next few hundred years they last. Even if only one percent don't make it to the landfill that's 5,000,000,000 floating around, going where the breeze takes them.
Here's your challenge: Paper or Plastic? Neither! Get yourself a few reusable bags, and USE them. If that's just too much to ask... atleast recycle the ones you consume. In front of every grocery store in town there is a recycle bin for plastic grocery bags, it's just a little not-so-in-your-face way of saying "Plastic Bags SHOULD Be Recycled"...
Just remember we are borrowing this earth from our children, leave it beautiful! To do nothing is selfish.
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