Should we use Paper bag or Corn Starch bag to avoid Polythene?

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Industrialization provides us the modern world to live better. But is this really true? May not 100% true. Unconsciously we had started to abuse the use of industrialization. Finally we became conscious about the environment. Now the environmental question is widely asked everywhere. People are trying hard to find alternative for everything, such as, Fuel, Energy, organic food, green house gas, efficient Cars etc. But all these issues are a real challenge to find alternative with out sacrificing the current speed of life. But a few people have paid attention on a simple issue to improve environment. That is the Polythene Shopping bag problem.


These bags are made of Petroleum base. Which is valuable for other important uses. But that is not the only problem. The biggest problem is how to discompose that Polythene bag once we use that just for carrying Grocery from the store to home. Right after it goes to the Garbage Container. It is almost impossible to keep separate the polythene bag from any other garbage for the proper land filling. Even it is separated for recycling or decomposition, how much it costs to process? May be $0.17 for each bag. But to produce the bag costs only $0.02. And use of the bag may be for less than one hour.

Should we recycle the plastic to make a Recycled bag? No, because a lot of Energy needs to recycle the Plastic. That should be a bad Medicine to hide a disease. Not cure the disease from the root.


Does the Polythene bag create problem for Environment? Of course yes, No need to be a scientist to realize that. The abuse of using Polythene bag is like a bacteria. It increases every second with out a real necessity to use. Do we need any un discovered or a Hi-tech to find out an alternative to the Polythene bag such as electric car or Fuel alternative? No, we just need to be conscious and use a reusable Organic bag as we did 50 years ago. But at cheaper price. Because the industrialization makes it cheaper. So we take advantage of industrialization. Not abuse the Industrialization.

See the alternative to the Polythene Bag Comparator bellow:

Comparator	Paper bag	Corn Starch Plastic Bag	Organic Fabric Bag
Environmental	Will Cut Trees	Doubtful	OK
Material Source	Not Renewable	Wasting Food	OK
Strength ness	No Good	No Good	OK
Reuse	No Good	No Good	OK
Ban in future	No Good	No Good	OK
Reduce Unnecessary Use	Uses will Increase	Uses will Increase	OK
Reuse to Litter garbage	No Good	Not Strong Enough	OK
Wild Fire/ Flying Garbage	OK	No Good	OK

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