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Daily Mail: Cotton bags offered by many supermarkets may be less 'green' than plastic carriers - and may cause more global warming, according to scientists.
As a greater amount of energy goes into making a cloth carrier than a polythene one, a cotton bag has to be used 131 times before it has the same environmental impact than its plastic counterpart
And if a plastic bag is re-used as a bin liner, a cotton bag has to be used 173 times - nearly every day of the year - before its ecological impact is as......
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Why you need to use your ‘environmentally friendly’ cotton carrier bag 171 times to be green
Posted by Daily Mail: Colin Fernandez on February 21st, 2011
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