paper VS. plastic (bag related)
youngEINSTEIN
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i prefer paper. peace, stein. . . 
youngEINSTEIN
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No offence stein.......but this is a no brainer man, plastic and paper is straight fuckeded
this may be the definitive NRR post.
Cause I figure they take up not much space cause if you melted them down they'd be the size of a dime or something. So there's lots of space for dimes on Earth, right?
Bags are good cause they carry shit, but can yall see yourselves working without a bag? commiting yoselves to some hardship and thus saving my planet?
Plaese to fuck a bag........
......yum ninja
If you really cared you would take those plastic bags, melt them down, grind them up, and re-seed hurricane damaged beaches with them. Think about it, they're just like really thin pieces of sand. Nobody says sand is bad for the environment, right? Noooo. But have you ever tried to make a bag out of sand? Right. No good. So that's why we need to eliminate sand.
I know your yoinking my cock, but for real I like earth and dedicate myselve daily to the preservation of this planet.
So......fkuck a bag, what yall got a wimp arm? Exercise your crook......
Ever so gently. With lotion.
Seriously though, why couldn't plastic be turned into sand? Aside from the silica content differences, why would it matter? Sand is non-nutrient. At best it acts as filler. Why not plastic?
"Plastic
Consider the familiar plastic bag. These single-use, high-density polyethylene bags are manufactured from petroleum, a nonrenewable resource. It's estimated that nearly 12 million barrels of oil are required to make the 100 million plastic shopping bags Americans go through annually. Plastic bags have captured more than 80 percent of the supermarket and convenience store packaging market at a cost of $4 billion to U.S. retailers annually.
Worldwide, between 500 billion and 1 trillion plastic bags are consumed each year, according to resusablebags.com, a website launched to educate the public about the true costs associated with the use of disposable bags.
Paper
Of course, the trail of paper bags starts in our forests. In 1999, 14 million trees were cut to produce the 10 billion paper grocery bags used by Americans. It's not surprising that most people prefer paper, believing it is the more responsible choice. Yet, like plastic, paper puts a heavy burden on the environment in terms of production, consumption and disposal.
Manufacturing paper bags requires virgin timber (for greater strength and elasticity), which is processed into heat-treated wood chips. This creates numerous byproducts that pollute waterways and produce greenhouse gases, which are consequently absorbed by fewer trees. In fact, according to the Film and Bag Federation, a trade group within the Society of the Plastics Industry based in Washington, D.C., paper bag production requires more energy, generates more solid waste, produces more atmospheric emissions and releases more waterborne wastes compared to plastic grocery bags.
Advocates of paper bags point out that trees are a renewable resource, but it takes years to replace the old, biologically rich forests that are harvested to make them."
Which leads us to conclude that grocery bags should be made from baby seal skin. Problem solved! No harmful emissions, renewable resource. Ta da!
Seriously though I think about this shit when I'm cramming 900 little plastic baggies into the garbage can. ALthough I have noticed several large chains that collect the bags for recycling.
Let's get this straight. This planet does not need preservation. Humans do. The planet will long be here and renew itself once our destructive ass selves are gone.
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Problem with paper (except at whole foods): no handles...
Fuck a grocery bag.
Co-sign like shit.
indeed. i take bags from home and re-use those.
and thanks for the stats flunk
I find that they chafe. Watermelon, now that's what I'm talking about.
If he only wore pink striped shirts...
You smash them down and twist them into a rope and wrap around the neck.
Have you ever tried to suffocate someone with a plastic grocery bag? They always rip - much too thin. Now those thick Target ones, that's what I'm talking about.