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Where does this self-righteous retardation come from on phuks?
As it turns out, It takes exponentially more resources to make a tote bag compared to the cheap polyethylene. The report analyzed how many times you’d need to use each type of bag to equal the environmental impact of a plastic one. Paper bags, and plastic-based reusable totes, required between 35 and 85 re-uses. A cotton tote, though, had to be used 7,100 times to make up for the resources that went into it. Organic cotton? 20,000 times. If you used your organic cotton bag twice a week for the rest of your life, it’d be worth it after 192 years.
Sure, organic cotton has a worse environmental footprint than non-organic cotton. I believe that. Especially since the author explained it in so much detail. I'm throwing away all my cotton totes, and I'm only ever going to use plastic stuff from now on. To be environmentally friendly. All plastic. No recycling. Forever.
Where does this self-righteous retardation come from on phuks?
>As it turns out, It takes exponentially more resources to make a tote bag compared to the cheap polyethylene. The report analyzed how many times you’d need to use each type of bag to equal the environmental impact of a plastic one. Paper bags, and plastic-based reusable totes, required between 35 and 85 re-uses. A cotton tote, though, had to be used 7,100 times to make up for the resources that went into it. Organic cotton? 20,000 times. If you used your organic cotton bag twice a week for the rest of your life, it’d be worth it after 192 years.
Sure, organic cotton has a worse environmental footprint than non-organic cotton. I believe that. Especially since the author explained it in so much detail. I'm throwing away all my cotton totes, and I'm only ever going to use plastic stuff from now on. To be environmentally friendly. All plastic. No recycling. Forever.
I gotta say, that was a pretty retarded article. 'Don't use reusable bags, they're bad for the environment', 'OMG GMO crops are so awesome, organic cotton is so terrible', etc.