When at the grocery store which is better for the environment: paper or plastic bags?*Thanks!*
ok this is a hard question after all . plastic pollute nature drastically and paper cut off a lot of trees!! the reusable ones r the best but i prefer paper although it hurts trees but we can replant trees in the place of others ( although it will take years) plastic is very hazardous. its chemicals are poisinous and when burnt they cause a lot of pollution. Please i adress this to everyone and i no this is a little hard to carry a reusable bag to the grocery or supermarket every time but try to and save the nature for ur future and ur childrens future. thnx
You can recycle paper easily, and with a little more work, find a place to accept plastic bags for recycling. Although paper is biodegradable, plastic takes up less space in the landfill. It probably depends on which one you will be able to reuse.
The paper bags are supposed to decompose easier that plastic, but the plastic bags save trees from getting cut down. Each has pros and cons. I use a third option. Those reusable canvas bags are great for grocery shopping and mean that less paper and plastic bags are being used.
Paper because plastic bags are not only dangerous to the environment but also to your health. It takes literally an estimated 400-1000 years for 1 plastic bag to breakdown in the environment. Unfortunately worldwide use of plastic bags has grown to 500 billion to a trillion pieces a year. With only less than 1% of these bags being recycled that figure is astounding.
If you don't have a reusable bag it is better to go with paper. Both bags take resources, but the plastic bag causes more harm when you are finished with it. Millions of them become litter each year and are harming wild life both on land and in the sea. Check out the link below.
