(from Reusablebags.com)
Recycling Can Fix This, Right? Wrong.
Recycling has its place -- in fact, we offer bags made of recycled PET because we support sustainable paths for the world's overabundance of plastic.
However, it's not the complete solution.
Recycling rates for plastic bags are extremely low. Only 1 to 3% of plastic bags end up getting recycled.
In addition, economics of recycling plastic bags are not appealing. From the process of sorting, to the contamination of inks and the overall low quality of the plastic used in plastics bags, recyclers would much rather focus on recycling the vast quantities of more viable materials such as soda and milk bottles that can be recycled far more efficiently. If the economics don't work, recycling efforts don't work. more
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Thursday, May 1, 2008
Recycling Can Fix This, Right? Wrong.
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Very important content! This is why I seldom takes plastic bags for my purchases when I shop. I own canvass bags but find that using no bags at all works just fine. After all, Costco doesn't offer bags and people shop there all the time!
Check out blogfish for more on recycle vs. ban as a solution. Also please take the blogfish poll on the subject. http://blogfishx.blogspot.com/2008/05/ocean-garbage-mess-and-possible.html
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