The plastic bag industry is fighting back. The American Progressive Bag Alliance is trying to do some fact checking of the movement to ban plastic bags. This is from the front page of the website linked above:
How many times does a 'reusable' bag need to be reused to have a lower impact on the environment than a conventional plastic bag?
According to Recyc-Quebec, a Canadian government agency:
Cotton or canvas bags need to be reused between 100 and 2,954 times.
Reusable woven polypropylene bags need to be reused between 16 to 98 times.
Reusable non-woven polypropylene bags need to be reused 11 to 59 times.
According to the UK Environment Agency:
Paper bags need to be reused 3 times.
Reusable non-woven polypropylene bags need to be reused 11 times.
Cotton or canvas bags need to be reused 131 times.
According to the Denmark Environmental Protection Agency:
Paper bags need to be reused 43 times.
Reusable non-woven polypropylene bags need to be reused 52 times.
Reusable woven polypropylene bags need to be reused 45 times.
Conventional cotton bags need to be reused 7,100 times.
Organic cotton bags need to be reused 20,000 times.
Ya gotta love the way they put the word "Progressive" in the title of their organization as if to reclaim the original meaning of the word before leftists appropriated it. The leftists at democraticunderground.com certainly noticed and responded with posts with titles like "American Progressive Bag Alliance...(What A F___ing Joke)."
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3:21 PM 5/22/2019
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