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Paper or Plastic? Cloth Please.
sigh.... fact checking and context: • 8-10% of oil into plastics? NO, it's more like 3-4%, and plastic ins't made from crude oil, but from by-products that are created when refining oil. Plastic bags are a very small fraction of all plastics. Look around your house or office: cars, computers, clocks, phones, etc etc. • 12 Million barrels of oil per year to make bags. True. BUT, we use nearly twice that much every day, mainly for fuel. Based on the actual numbers, and on the amouont of oil that goes into a single bag, the gasoline equivalent of the average annual bag consumption is about half a gallon. To reverse those numbers, the amount of oil that goes into filling a 15 gallon gas tank would make the bags for one person for thirty years. • the amount of money used to clean up plastic litter would be VASTLY decreased by increased recycling programs • The final fact... about plankton... I have no idea where that fact came from or what it actually applies to. In the middle of the pacific garbage patch...maybe? this also fails to suggest any context... the fact that there is more of one thing than another, without any context, means nothing.— June 27, 2011 2:09 p.m.