General Article Is your reusable tote worse for the environment than a plastic bag?

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By Rosie Frost

Plastic bags have become a bit of a taboo subject in recent years. Bans have been brought in across the globe to try to limit how many of these environmentally disastrous pieces of junk end up littering our world for virtually forever. Even some of the most prolific waste producers are making plastic bags a thing of the past with China looking to ban non-biodegradable bags by the end of 2020.

Despite our new-found distaste for the single-use carrier, the Earth Policy Institute ...

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