A Simple Way Out of the Plastic-vs.-Paper-Bag Dilemma
Just re-use any bag that you receive to radically reduce its environmental impact.
This is a complex infographic about how the choices you make in selecting a bag affect the environment in a variety of ways.
The data here will show you that, at least according to the published in paper isn't necessarily better than plastic. When they ran the numbers, Helen Lewis, Karli Verghese, and Leanne Fitzpatrick found that paper bags actually fared worse on most measures than even a plastic bag made with unrecycled material.
