When I was growing up all the supermarkets used paper bags. Then all of a sudden paper bags were bad. Move to plastic and save a tree we were told. I never l

When I was growing up all the supermarkets used paper bags. Then all of a sudden paper bags were bad. Move to plastic and save a tree we were told. I never liked plastic bags but all of a sudden we weren't offered a choice. We did far more irreparable harm to our planet in order to save the trees. But we can replant a tree where one was harvested so net net we never lost any trees at all by using paper bags.