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• Paper bag manufacturing facilitates: smoke stacks, logging trucks, clear cut forests.
• It takes 13 to 17 trees to make one ton of paper bags. It has been reported that 955000 tons of paper bags were used in the United States (that's about 13 to 17 million trees).
• It takes more than four times as much energy to manufacture a paper bag as it does to manufacture a plastic bag.
• It takes 91 percent less energy to recycle a pound of plastic than it takes to recycle a pound of paper.
• Paper bag generate 70 percent more air and 50 times more water pollutants than plastic bags.
• Plastic grocery bags generate 80% less solid waste than paper bags.
• 2000 plastic bags weigh 30 pounds, 2000 paper bags weigh 280 pounds. Paper bags require significant more landfill space.
• Current research demonstrates that paper bags in today's landfills does not degrade or break down at a substantially faster rate than plastic.

• Four times as much energy is required to produce paper bags and 85 times as much energy is needed to recycle them.
• Paper bags take up nine times as much space in landfills.
• Compostable bags must also be segregated from regular plastic, making recycling efforts more difficult.

• The paper industry emits the fourth-highest level of carbon dioxide

Choosing more paper bags means more pollution, more water waste, more energy consumption, and more landfill usage. Protect the environment by doing the RIGHT thing. Choose to REUSE and RECYCLE Plastic Bags. No other material can be recycled over and over again.