I’ve always preferred paper, and it’s a carbon sink. Instead of a plastic ban, I’d like to know my paper bags are coming from a sustainable logging operation or where the forest is being protected from fire by targeted logging operations.
Plastic is about the best carbon sink you could imagine, locks up those Cs for hundreds of years, unless it gets combusted.
I can imagine a better carbon sink: not extracting the carbon to begin with.
Those Cs were already locked up.
Do you have a source on it being a net carbon sink? I'm skeptical bc there's a lot more effort to make and distribute paper bags than cutting down a tree
Maybe if you're only looking at the environmental impact angle. From a utility angle paper bags don't handle moisture well, the handles aren't as strong, and are more bulky than plastic bags.