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Re:Canada aims to ban single-use plastics by 2021 by gruez on Sunday July 12, 2020 @04:53PM (#23814656)
>We cannot fix everything everywhere, but we can move the needle. Maybe a youth living near one of those 10 rivers, reading about Canada doing it, will become a member of parliament or a minister and will do something about it.

This kind of attitude only makes sense if it doesn't cost anything. Doubling our CO2 usage (assuming we switched to paper bags)[1], just so we can virtue signal to kids in third world countries is asinine.

[1] https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...

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Re:Canada aims to ban single-use plastics by 2021 by zaarn on Sunday July 12, 2020 @11:49PM (#23816976)
Get a cloth bag instead of a paper bag and you'll get something that will out life the single-use bag and be more environmentally friendly after using it about 100 times.

Doubling CO2 usage is only true if things remain single-use.

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Re:Canada aims to ban single-use plastics by 2021 by beprogrammed on Monday July 13, 2020 @12:49PM (#23822827)
Trees are a renewable resource, trees pull carbon during growth, paper is recyclable seems paper bags are pretty good.
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