Why are NYers so spoiled?!

33055

Fri, Feb 10 2017, 12:38 pm

The bags are not the biggest part of how we are spoiled. I already had my kitchen garbage dumped twice today from disposables I used in my kitchen this morning. Baking trays, coffee pods, roasting pans....

I reuse shopping bags packing up food. The truth is that I could easily reuse them again and again or buy something to transport food. There is no reason I couldn't carry shopping bags with me.

iluvy

Fri, Feb 10 2017, 3:43 pm

https://www.theatlantic.com/te.....8557/

Quote:

But canvas bags might actually be worse for the environment than the plastic ones they are meant to replace. In 2008, the UK Environment Agency (UKEA) published a study of resource expenditures for various bags: paper, plastic, canvas, and recycled-polypropylene tote bags. Surprisingly, the authors found that in typical patterns of use and disposal, consumers seeking to minimize pollution and carbon emissions should use plastic grocery bags and then reuse those bags at least once—as trash-can liners or for other secondary tasks. Conventional plastic bags made from high-density polyethylene (HDPE, the plastic sacks found at grocery stores) had the smallest per-use environmental impact of all those tested. Cotton tote bags, by contrast, exhibited the highest and most severe global-warming potential by far since they require more resources to produce and distribute.