How plastic bags were supposed to help the planet - BBC News

Plastic

bags

seemed to be one of the most hated things on the

planet

, but did you know that when it comes to things like climate change, paper and cotton

bags

are actually much worse for the

planet

than

plastic

? When people look at environmental impacts, they tend to focus right at the end of the life cycle analysis they see

plastic

pollution, which is a huge problem, but what far fewer people look at is right at the beginning, the production side; In fact, the plastic bag was originally invented to

help

save the planet; my father had the idea that people would just throw them in the trash it would be strange that's ral toulon his father Stan Gustav Toulon is credited with inventing the plastic bag we know today in Sweden in 1959 back then people used a lot of paper bags and for them they had to cut down a lot of trees which wasn't exactly good for the planet Sten had an idea that he developed: if he could create a strong bag that was lightweight and would last a long time, then people could use it over and over again. time and that would mean fewer trees would be cut down.

What would be better for the environment is a huge improvement over what it was before. He always carried one with the pocket folded. You know, what they're all encouraging us to do today is bring our own bags to the store I was at. We did it in the '70s and '80s naturally, because why wouldn't you have a problem? These bags were so convenient that we humans got lazy, we just threw them in the trash when we were done with them. Plastic bags were not used just once, but they became unique. -use and it is one of the reasons we have this plastic pollution problem nowadays, many countries now charge you for a plastic bag, the idea is that you won't want one if you have to pay for it and in some countries they have done that .

We banned these bags completely, so many of us are throwing away plastic and using more paper and cotton bags, but those bags aren't exactly Saints paper bags, they use more energy than usual to produce water and are also heavier. Depending on where they are manufactured, there is an additional environmental impact when transporting them to stores. Cotton bags are even worse. The

news

is a lot of war and it's a pretty intensive crop to produce, so these are the same concerns we have. with some of the fast fashion issues on the other side, plastic backs are very efficient, we need very little oil, very little energy and then we have a plastic bag that is as environmentally friendly as a plastic bag single-use that is recycled into paper.

The bag must be used at least three times, while cotton bags must be used at least 131 times, the same environmental impact as a single-use plastic bag that is recycled, making it difficult to know which bag I should use if I don't want to kill the planet, the answer is to just use a bag you already have and keep using it over and over again and when it breaks, repair it or recycle it.