Well, well, well, another green myth busted. Apparently, it takes 26 times more resources to produce those plastic re-useable grocery bags than it does the single-use plastic variety that we've all been told to eschew, lest we be evil polluters and world destroyers.
And here's the kicker: Those cotton totes that the "real" enviros carry in a show-offy display of super-greenness? Those use a whopping.....wait for it.....300 times more resources than the lowly single-use "junk" ones! Cotton is the worst because it uses so much water and transportation resources to produce. Who knew?
All this I heard from a waste-management expert and environmental scientist, whose company sorts and recycles refuse in Toronto, on a CBC interview this morning. I had no idea, as I skulk around the cash in the local grocery store being looked at in disdain, that I am actually "greener" than they!
Now, instead of slinking in shame to my car, I will proudly inform the Birkenstock-ers looking down their noses at me, that their totes are 300 times more damaging to the environment than the ones I am filling up.
Sometimes schleppers such as I get a break.
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