Paper - doesn't slide around in the trunk like plastic bags do. The bag just sit there nice and perky and (if properly sacked) stuff won't spill out. You can carry more, per bag.
Plastic bags - feh. The handles turn into flesh-slicing threads, set them down and everything sort of slops out. They'll slide all over the trunk, tossing your goods hither and yon.
I'm not convinced that paper bags are, really, that harmful to the environment. Trees are a _crop_ - how much of our paper comes from old growth forests and how much from managed tree farms?
It's also possible that this is my background speaking - my dad's side of the family makes (or made) their living in and around paper mills, forestry and lumber jacking. Yep - they're the people that laughed at the tree huggers and ate spotted owls for lunch.
I don't understand why Greenpeace would mind paper that is genuinely sustainably harvested. So I don't see what they have to gain by lying and saying that it isn't.
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Plastic bags - feh. The handles turn into flesh-slicing threads, set them down and everything sort of slops out. They'll slide all over the trunk, tossing your goods hither and yon.
I'm not convinced that paper bags are, really, that harmful to the environment. Trees are a _crop_ - how much of our paper comes from old growth forests and how much from managed tree farms?
It's also possible that this is my background speaking - my dad's side of the family makes (or made) their living in and around paper mills, forestry and lumber jacking. Yep - they're the people that laughed at the tree huggers and ate spotted owls for lunch.
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Which doesn't mean they're wrong, but .. Greenpeace is hardly a non-biased source.
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