Except that it doesn't. Tough brown paper and cardboard is made from the trashiest of trashy recycled paper material. All you're doing by eliminating paper ba

Except that it doesn't. Tough brown paper and cardboard is made from the trashiest of trashy recycled paper material. All you're doing by eliminating paper bags or cardboard is reducing the number of times that a tree will benefit anyone from the time it is cut to the time it is either land-filled or burned. If you want to see a larger fraction of paper and pulp products "go around again" then you need to do things that increases the market size of the low end products that get made with the source materials that can't be made into anything else.