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Growing carbon footprint of plastics
- raxxorrax 5y agoAll supermarkets in my area replaced plastic bags with ones made of paper. I am pretty sure the the ecological impact is worse. > Even in a worst- case scenario in which all plastics are incinerated I don't understand this and I had difficulties convincing people of the opposite because of the toxic gases, but burning all the plastic would be awesome. It would not stay forever in the food chain if it gets burned. I mean purely from a greenhouse gas perspective this seems sensible, but I think the impact of plastic goes beyond that. To be fair, the article makes the claim that the burning of plastic litter is inconsequential to emission while it gets produced. But as I said, we should check if paper bags aren't worse for the environment.