This is virtue signaling, par excellence.
Mike Sedon’s a good guy. But he’s dead wrong here.
Bulky paper bags were largely replaced by plastic bags decades ago because of the incredible percentage the paper bags took up of the total volume of landfill space and the fact that as soon as they were covered over with dirt or additonal garbage, they did not degrade at all but were found to be perfectly archeologically preserved, decade after decade. This is due to the total absence of oxygen or sunlight within the landfill heap. From that discovery it was a perfectly logical step to take to replace paper bags with the gossamer-thin plastic bags which, by comparison, now take up a vanishingly small percentage of the total volume of space in modern landfill heaps.
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