I was rather shocked reading this, so decided to look this up. It turns out paper bags are just as bad too: - Compared to a plastic bags their production relea

I was rather shocked reading this, so decided to look this up. It turns out paper bags are just as bad too: - Compared to a plastic bags their production releases 70% more air pollution, and 50x more water pollution. - To recycle paper bags takes 10x more energy than plastic bags. http://www.niassembly.gov.uk/globalassets/documents/raise/publications/2011/environment/3611.pdf http://www.niassembly.gov.uk/globalassets/documents/raise/pu... (Note that this is from 2011, so maybe the numbers have changed since then)