Paper or Plastic? It’s Beyond Time to Bring Our Own!

As I continue to write on things green and how we can better our own lives while helping the planet a bit, I’m always surprised when I get these hyper large statistics related to our health and the environment. A while back, I heard a piece on NPR that China was in the process of banning free plastic bags, requiring the customer to bring their own or be charged for one. The startling reason why? China uses over 3 billion bags per day (first startling statistic). The gross problem with all this bag use is that these petroleum based bags use billions of barrels of oil to be made and hang out in landfills forever.