Battle of the Bags: Paper and plastic both lose

Still stuck at the paper or plastic conundrum? Go over to MSNBC's Battle of the Bags: Paper or Plastic, and you'll learn more than you ever wanted to know about the issue. This little web piece uses short surveys, videos, polls, and quizzes to exhaustively examine the bag issue -- to conclude that it's pretty much impossible to figure out whether a plastic or paper bag is better.

While Battle of the Bags doesn't push the reusable bag as strongly as I'd like -- though a montage of chic reusable bags is part of the piece -- hopefully more people will come to that conclusion after watching the piece. One of the issues that MSNBC doesn't really cover is the fact that plastic bags wash out to the oceans and kill marine life -- which doesn't bode well, environmentally or financially, for L.A.'s tourism industry.

Battle of the Bags'll be personally useful for me, since every time I write about plastic bag bans and taxes happening around the world, I get one-sided comments and emails about how plastic bags are greener than paper bags. In the future, I'll just point them to MSNBC.

[Thanks to Jessica for the tip!]

Earlier:
Santa Monica a step closer to banning plastic bags
L.A. County's new anti-plastic bag legislation contains no ban or tax
Bring Your Own week: BYO Bag

Comments

[Jshinyeda]

The whole report seems to be beating a dead horse. Didn't we already know that they are both bad? I thought the green revolution had already started. It would have been great if instead MSNBC spent the time to report on more fun reusable bags (For example: Savior Bags). How about some reports on the positive effects that these stories have created.