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I’ve always preferred paper, and it’s a carbon sink. Instead of a plastic ban, I’d like to know my paper bags are coming from a sustainable logging operation or
by exabrial 3y ago
I’ve always preferred paper, and it’s a carbon sink. Instead of a plastic ban, I’d like to know my paper bags are coming from a sustainable logging operation or where the forest is being protected from fire by targeted logging operations.
- doomrobo 3y agoDo you have a source on it being a net carbon sink? I'm skeptical bc there's a lot more effort to make and distribute paper bags than cutting down a tree
- Areading314 3y agoPlastic is about the best carbon sink you could imagine, locks up those Cs for hundreds of years, unless it gets combusted.
- gruez 3y agoMaybe if you're only looking at the environmental impact angle. From a utility angle paper bags don't handle moisture well, the handles aren't as strong, and are more bulky than plastic bags.
- loeg 3y agoPaper is only a carbon sink until it breaks down.