Why not use plastic Bags ?

Recently we have seen people saying us to use Paper Bags instead of Plastic bags. The reason is that, they have not clearly understood what plastic bags are and few facts about plastic bags (source : ET).

- Indians are largly thrifty and tend to reuse plastic bags.
- 91% less energy to recycle (1kg) of Plastic than Paper bags.
- Wt is less, hence saved in trasportation.( 2,000 palstic bags weighs 13.5Kg, and 2000 paper bags weighs 127 kgs).
- Manufacturing of Plastic bags generate 80% less waste than paper bags.
- Manufacturing of Paper bags generates 70% more air emission than plastic bags.
- Amount of water used to manufacture Plastic bags is very less than manufacturing Paper bags.

The Action plan is not to eleminate Plastic Bags but to chanlize and find some mechanism to recycle the Plastic waste, this will be more green. Eleminating Plastic bags and moving to Paper bags does not actually help environment.

Anyone having any comments welcome. Lets discuss.