Monday, January 21, 2019

BANNING PLASTIC BAGS, BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR, SCIENCE SHOWS IT'S NOT REALLY GREEN, NY POST

NEW YORK POST...excerpted. Please make sure to read the WHOLE article at the link below.

State lawmakers may soon cave to the anti-plastic craze by passing a statewide plastic-bag ban. In its zeal to jump on the anti-plastic bandwagon, the Legislature would force consumers to use alternatives that use up more resources and have been shown to endanger public health. What will New Yorkers gain after being forced to relinquish one of the most useful inventions of modern times? Alternatives include potentially disease-ridden reusable bags or those hard-to-carry, commuter-unfriendly paper bags that fall apart in the rain and use more energy in the production process than their plastic counterparts. First, consider the public-health profile of reusable cloth bags. https://nypost.com/2019/01/20/science-shows-that-its-not-really-green-to-ban-plastic-bags/

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