Battle of the Bags: Paper vs. Plastic

What about reusable bags? I know they haven't caught on as much in the US but I saw a ton of people using them while I was living in London. They may not work for big shopping trips but they're so easy if you're just picking up a few things on your way home from work or school. Just my two cents...

Reusable cloth, or paper. Never plastic.

We receive the groceries paper bags in which I recycle with the other recycles then if there are any plastic around usually I use it for the bathrooms stuff and that goes to the trash. I am sure they have a separation of this plastic at the destination. Once I watched this interesting movie about guys that open up a company processing trash and transforming it in fertilizers. I think the movie's name was "black gold" or "gold trash," something like that. When I was in College we went in this very interesting field trip to the sewer processing plant for our biology class. That was amazing stuff. Sure smell bad but they extract gas methane from that "byproduct" and that gas makes the processing plant turbines run in a loop. Very smart way to get rid of things and making money at the same time.

I have reusable canvas bags I take with me. I have seen more people here using them of late and plastic does not seem to be as popular as it once was. That is a good sign.

In the UK the debate is now between plastic bags or no bags at all. Our resident Mr Darling just announced that supermarkets are now to charge for plastic bags.

I think if we started the same system as they do in Germany you would see a solution. In germany you have to pay for your groccery bags, it's only like 5 cents a bag, but if you do that for every bag, every time, then you will soon be looking for a way to reuse a bag

I do not deny that industry, society and even us are reckless in relation to oil and plastic but there are certain things in a house that are "bio-hazard," and using paper is not a good idea. By the other hand I am totally willing to change my recycle habits with better and clean alternatives of hygiene if there are better disposable solutions out there for "bio-hazard waste."

There is a very simple solution to this problem. Hemp paper bags. They would be biodegradable and are renewable. People need to research hemp and then demand we be able to grow and use it. It's stupid to use trees to make paper. Hemp can be made into paper with less damage to the environment in the growing and manufacture. There will be no glob of hemp floating around in the ocean either.

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