I just saved the world?

@Alice wouldn't have been on DevRant then xD

Paper bags have a larger print on earth....
The manufacturing process makes at least 10 times more waste (and poisons the soil)
Better to reuse plastic bags...

This is not 9gag ;)

@RodrigoF Or use a sturdy backpack!

But yeah, most paper contains about as much plastic polymers as plastic bags.

You don't have those issues if you just recycle. ♻️

@bittersweet problem is in the processing...
New or recicled a lot of chemicals are used (water based, to wash, clean and white the paper)
Plastic bags have almost no finger print on production and recicling...

@RodrigoF Yup, and the drying... I've momentarily worked in a paper factory, and there were two giant turbines gobbling up 1500m3 gas/minute to heat up drying machines. And thousands of liters of fibre rich effluent water running off into a lake at 60c...

@bittersweet
The water in the lake is lake is the worst... Should be a low against it, but It's hard to create laws against lobbies...