Paper or Plastic???

Our friends at MSNBC say

Here's how paper and plastic stack up side by side:

To make all the bags we use each year, it takes 14 million trees for paper and 12 million barrels of oil for plastic. The production of paper bags creates 70 percent more air pollution than plastic, but plastic bags create four times the solid waste — enough to fill the Empire State Building two and a half times. And they can last up to a thousand years.

Plastic, because it's cheaper to produce, is the overwhelming choice of grocery stores across the nation — the average family of four uses almost 1,500 of these a year. San Francisco is limiting consumers' freedom of choice, allowing only biodegradable plastic bags, which break down over months rather than hundreds of years.

For both types of bags, the environmentalist mantra is the same — reuse and recycle. But the best choice, they say, is cloth or canvas, and BYOB — bring your own bags.

I try to keep my bags in the trunk. I unload them and force myself to take them right back out to the car. That way if I'm stopping for just a few things on my way home from work, I have the bags with me.

I am not 100% sure, but I think plastic bags are better because you can reuse them more and the paper ones are used from trees
-Seeturtle