Ban plastic bags in grocery stores.
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Screw Global Warming!
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Critics often don't take into account the whole environmental impact of bags, including the energy used to manufacture and dispose of them. And they often rely on heavily flawed estimates of how many bags end up as pollution. For instance, many studies overlook a simple but crucial fact: Bags break down into smaller pieces. They're not technically "bags"—and aren't counted as such—but are still pollutants. In other cases, studies understate the impact of plastic bags because they don't account for the weight or volume of the bags; they simply tally up how many bags are out there and compare the total to other types of garbage. Side: Right away!
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If we ban plastic, the use of paper will go up, more trees would be cut down, CO2 would go up, GW would speed up. On the other hand, we are not Europeans. We do not carry our own cloth sacks to the market. We're not socialists, damn it ;) On the other hand..., I have 5 more fingers. Side: Right away!
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