Paper or Plastic? Skeeda, please–
Submitted by Non-Toxic Kids
Ready for some statistics that will make you remember your cloth bags on your next trip to the grocery store? I know, remembering more than the kids (and the diaper bag) and a food list is a pain in the #$%*. Here’s why we should remember anyway–
The average family accumulates over 60 bags in only 4 trips to the grocery store. That is a lot of plastic! So paper should be better, right?
It takes more than 4 times as much energy to manufacture a paper bag then it does a plastic bag. Add that to the fact that making paper bags produces tons of greenhouse gases, and forests help control climate change to begin with. Maybe not the better choice.
And according to the Wall Street Journal, the U.S. consumes 100 billion plastic shopping bags annually requiring approximately 12 million barrels of oil. Not so good for that energy independence idea everyone keeps talking about (well, not everyone. See the last post for the sad reality of what our presidential candidates are not talking about).
So, what to do? I have plenty of very ugly, stained cloth bags I cart to the store every week. But recently, a got a snazzy new addition from a friend (the same friend who gave me these statistics). I received a big, beautiful (and clean!) striped cloth bag made by Skeeda. It was made in the U.S. of A (hoorah!). It is huge and holds lots of groceries, unlike my other less appealing bags. The label shares more startling statistics, if you need a few more to motivate you to get those bags into your car:
It is estimated that 500 billion to 1 trillion (yes, you read that right) plastic bags are thrown out annually worldwide (which equates to 1 million per minute), and that 96% of plastic bags end up in landfills.
And this is one that surprised me: the petroleum used to make 14 plastic bags is enough to drive a care one mile!
Visit Skeeda’s website at www.skeeda.com to buy snazzy cloth bags to stop the mayhem.
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