Sunday, October 7, 2012


1. What Disney character most relates to a Christ-Like figure?
2. Paper or Plastic? 
3. What does ones social group conclude about one' self?

As much as I would like to answer the other two, I feel question number two is the most suitable question for me as I am lazy. When you go to a store, most likely if you ask someone which is better, paper or plastic? They will grimace at the fact that they are using plastic bags and then reply - Paper, being the obvious choice. However, is paper really that obvious of a choice, or is it equally detrimental to the environment as plastic is. Despite the much debated issue, the final answer is one that is not given - Bring your own bag. Heres how the statistics lay out: To make all the bags we use each year, it takes 14 million trees for paper and 12 million barrels of oil for plastic. The production of paper bags creates 70 percent more air pollution than plastic, but plastic bags create four times the solid waste — enough to fill the Empire State Building two and a half times. And they can last up to a thousand years. Plastic is cheaper to produce and is consequentially being the main choice by grocery stores across the nation   — the average family of four uses almost 1,500 of these a year. San Francisco put a restriction on plastic bags to issue more biodegradable bags which break down over months rather than hundreds of years. No matter the bag, the environmental impact is the say - equally harmful. As a result, there is only one choice that is conclusively proven to save the environment: bring your own bags. 

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