3rd March 2008, 04:30 PM
1Man1desk wrote "Not so - plastic bags are made from oil. It takes energy (= greenhouse gas emissions) to extract and transport the oil, to refine it into the raw materials for plastic bag manufacture, and to make and distribute the bags themselves. There are also waste gasses produced during all of those stages. The bags then decay (albeit very slowly), releasing more gasses."
I am well aware of all these points. They could apply to almost everything made by makind.
I suppose my point is that limiting plastic bag use goes much further to solving a litter problem than it does to solving climate change. By an extremely wide margin.
I am well aware of all these points. They could apply to almost everything made by makind.
I suppose my point is that limiting plastic bag use goes much further to solving a litter problem than it does to solving climate change. By an extremely wide margin.