Eco friendly has been the trending topic nowadays,
if you haven't noticed businesses, governments, celebrities and coalitions have
been competing on who's more Eco friendly than who, it's alright to
do that if they really are helping the environment, but the question is do they
really do these save earth thing for the sake of our environment or do they just promote things
like these for their own sake? a lot of businesses, coalitions, governments and
celebrities usually promote Eco friendly campaigns just to gain
publicity. Votes, fame and sales are all they really care about, even if it means destroying the environment or even their country by
promoting falsely.
That is why it's important for us as an individual to open our
eyes and mind, remember to think before we judge and support a campaign or
promotion, because not everything we hear from the media are true, unless it is
scientifically proven.
A good example of these false campaign is the
promotion of the use of paper bag and cotton bag as our shopping bags, do you think these promotion helps the environment? here are some of the details everyone needs to know, let's compare them to our traditional hated plastic bags:
- In order to make 1 ton of paper up to 17 trees need to be logged.
- 1 gallon of water is needed to make just 1 paper bag. Same amount of water can already produce 116 plastic bags.
- 200% more energy is needed to produce paper bags than plastic bags.
- Paper bags produce 3 times more carbon emission than plastic bags.
- A paper bag weighs 600% more than a plastic bag does, which means it consumes more landfill space.
- The cotton bags which they're all promoting right now the so called Eco Bag, does 200 times more damaging effect to the climate than a plastic bag can.
- Cotton bags need to be reused 171 times just to equal the low carbon emission of a plastic bag.
Need I say more? Ladies and gentlemen, no matter what argument they say about "recycled paper uses waste paper material not trees", paper is still paper will there be a recycled paper if there were no trees involved? what is the source of paper? Trees right? so encouraging people to use paper bags only means more logging, and what happens when our rainforest are depleted? our worse nightmare, Global Warming, flood, famine and then the end of the world. While falsely promoting the cotton bag renaming it as the Eco Bag is also wrong, brain washing scheme is what they're doing to us, it is one of their marketing strategy. The carbon emission of a Cotton bag is high, and that is why we need to reuse it 171 times just to lower the emission to a friendly level, but can you reuse such bag 171 times? I doubt that, survey says more or less, cotton bags are only used 51 times at its best. 
High carbon emissions causes Global warming and promoting the use of cotton bags only means promoting global warming, we should actually rename these cotton bags to Global Warming bags, for it is a much suitable name to it. If you're already complaining about the impact of plastics to the environment, then you're making it even worse by promoting these 2 products. So the next time you walk into a store always remember the use of a paper bag or the global warming bag, contributes to ending the world that's the scientifically proven truth.
Powerful businesses, governments and celebrities you guys are in a position in these world where everyone dreams of, you're living in a dream why do you want it to end? don't you know by promoting falsely you are also ending the world?
As an individual I encourage you all to look, and think clearly before believing something, as long as there is no scientific research proving the claims, do not believe in it.
As an individual I encourage you all to look, and think clearly before believing something, as long as there is no scientific research proving the claims, do not believe in it.
Eco Friendly Research Sources:
- Technological Association of Pulp and Paper Industries (TAPPI)
- Life Cycle Assessment for Three Types of Grocery Bags - Recyclable Plastic; Compostable, Biodegradable Plastic; and Recycled, Recyclable Paper. 2007; study performed by Boustead Consulting & Associates, Ltd
- Life Cycle Assessment of Supermarket Carrier Bags: A Review of the Bags Available in 2006. UK Environment Agency. July 2011.
- Technological Association of Pulp and Paper Industries (TAPPI)
- Life Cycle Assessment for Three Types of Grocery Bags - Recyclable Plastic; Compostable, Biodegradable Plastic; and Recycled, Recyclable Paper. 2007; study performed by Boustead Consulting & Associates, Ltd
- Life Cycle Assessment of Supermarket Carrier Bags: A Review of the Bags Available in 2006. UK Environment Agency. July 2011.
