Paper, Plastic, or Reusable?

Are you feeling helpless when it comes to helping our environment? Well, you are not helpless. Each one of us can make a significant difference by eliminating the use of disposable shopping bags! Here are some interesting facts from the New England EPA.

• Paper sacks generate 70 percent more air and 50 times more water pollutants than plastic bags.
• Paper bags are made from trees. Most plastic bags are made from polyethylene, which is made from crude oil and natural gas.
• 2000 plastic bags weigh 30 pounds, 2000 paper bags weigh 280 pounds. The latter takes up a lot more landfill space.
• Current research demonstrates that paper in today's landfills does not degrade or break down at a substantially faster rate than plastic does. In fact, nothing completely degrades in modern landfills due to the lack of water, light, oxygen, and other important elements that are necessary for the degradation process to be completed.
• Incineration can decrease the quantity of plastic and paper bags. However, incineration causes air pollution and creates ash which has to be landfilled.
• In New York City alone, one less grocery bag per person per year would reduce waste by five million pounds and save $250,000 in disposal costs, not to mention saving thousands of animals and cleaning up our oceans.

Paper, Plastic, or Reusable? The best answer is clear... Reusable. And now, you can look trendy while being good to our planet.

WE CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE!!!!

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 Above: Snack Sacks