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Also remember that plastic bags were introduced as being more environmentally friendly than paper (which comes from trees).

There are good questions to ask about the pollution involved in making paper bags but:

1. That has to be compared against the pollution involved in making plastic bags, not against nothing at all.

2. Paper bags can use recycled paper, so it’s not really (directly) from trees.

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