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Originally Posted by legion
Oh and...
Is paper really "greener" than plastic?
Plastic can be recycled and reused. Paper cuts down trees. In the dog poop example above: what are people going to use instead of plastic grocery bag? They will just go out and buy a roll of prepackaged plastic bags.
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Yeah, remember when styrofoam coffee cups were all the rage, "Save Trees". Then we figured out that manufacturing styrofoam took way more natural resources and the stuff does not degrade.