Paper Bags

I am increasingly disapproving of the proposed paper and plastic bag bans, that municipalities have been bringing forward in recent years. While I have several reusable bags, I don’t always have them on my truck or with me when I go to the store, especially when I stop taking the bus home.

I would have no problem with them banning plastic bags in favor of free paper bags. Paper bags are more convenient and easier to then having to remember to bring back them to the store for recycling. Paper bags also support healthy forests, are compostable and recyclable with ordinary mixed-paper recycling.

Plastic bags can pose a litter problem. But paper bags generally rot fairly quickly, don’t get caught on trees, and really have few downsides.