Concerned about the environment? And you don’t know where to start from then don’t just get worried. Do something. It’s you who has to begin. Say for example it is a good idea to use paper bags instead of the usual plastic bags. You must have heard about the reusability of the plastic and its materials but then, they are the major pollutants of the environment. Paper on the other side is biodegradable. Certain times you may not know also but you might be the one creating the hazard to the environment. Although both of them are recyclable, and can be used again and again but there are some of the manufacturing issues which are taken under consideration.
You must have noticed all kinds of the bags used everywhere around you. The reusable plastic and papirposer have become a pert and parcel of the life of anyone. Talking about the types of the paper bags, there are various types, like simple bags, multi-section bags, some bags even come with the covering of the polyethene to make it water proof.
Many of the manufactures make bags of plastikposer very tough to make it weight resistant and able to carry certain heavy things. Many of the people are unaware about the plastic and paper bags manufacturing process. Which actually a matter which has to be taken care of, Plastic may be recycled, but it takes a lot of energy to create the tough material again, also some part of the durability is also lost by the processes involved in the recycling.
By the time of reading this paragraph you must be thinking that paper bags are the best thing to use, but let us get clear about the fact that one paper bag takes more consumption of raw materials than the plastic bags. Also paper is basically a material which made from the bark of the trees. So it is not very economical for the manufacturer as well as for the buyer to opt for paper bags.
Some of the paper bags are thicker than the plastic ones to make it better so in turn you need to use mare raw material for that and thus a lot of time as well as energy is consumed. There are many aspects of the both the types of the material to better than the other. The situational use of the appropriate type of the bags is in your hands after all.
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