Paper is biodegradable while plastic is not. Also, it takes much more energy to recycle plastic than it is to recycle paper. However, it is best to bring a cloth or any environmental bag when shopping. They do not harm the environment and are much more durable than paper or plastic, so they can be reused without hurting the environment.
You do not take any, you bring a re-usable bag that you buy at some stores, you put all of your groceries inside. You cannot chose paper because it is made out of trees, you cannot chose plastic because they injure the animals and pollute the planet when people just throw them outside.
I'm pretty good about bringing my reusable bags, but if I forget I always use paper. My reason is plastic bags generally aren't recycled, and their design encourages them to become litter, plus they are so thin they tend to tear and won't hold much weight. If a paper bag gets released into the environment it will biodegrade, if plastic get released it is likely to clog things or become entangled with wildlife. Or add even more plastic to the plastic island in the Pacific Ocean.
This is a really tough question although I would have to say paper. Yes we have to cut down trees but plastic is so bad for the environment. Plastic that we use today will always be on the earth, it never breaks down. You can't recycle plastic, burning it produces tonnes of Co2 emissions. The toxic chemicals that make up plastic are really bad for the environment, animals and even our health. At least with paper you can recycle it and it does break down.
You can't recycle plastic, burning it produces tonnes of Co2 emissions. The toxic chemicals that make up plastic are really bad for the environment, animals and even our health Can we not say plastic like every synthetic polymer is identical, please? It really doesn't help anyone understand the issues. Many plastics CAN be recycled, and the polyethylenes used in plastic bag manufacture are excellent candidates. It may well be that there is insufficient interest in doing so, or that the business is not viewed as very exciting, or maybe there are insufficient recycling companies in existance to make the supply chain effective, but the majority of plastics can be recycled, as evidenced by the fact that during the earlier 2000s China was happily taking European trash, and recycling the plastics for it's own use. There we go - they do it, we just whinge about it. Burning plastics does cause CO2 emissions, correct. However, you are incorrect that there are toxic chemicals in plastics that are bad for the environment, animals and even our health. The plastics that most of us come into contact with and which form most packaging applications are polyolefins (polyethylene, polypropylene) and polyesters (nylons, PET). None of these contain anything toxic, and as you have already stated, they don't break down - so they cannot break down into anything toxic. Agreed, its not good to have them littering the country and getting thrown around all over the place, and its not great to use up land with huge landfill sites - but lets stop spreading the psuedoscience and hysteria and actually look at this in a vaguely scientfiic way, please? The problem with embellishing your arguments with bullshit is that once people find out that one piece of your information is fake, they naturally assume ALL of it might be fake, and it really doesn't help your case to become a compelling one. Oh, and to answer the question - plastic, but I bring reusable ones.
