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01/12/18
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OK I will bite, let's convert the USA from plastic bags to paper bags:
Americans use 100 billion plastic bags a year.
https://www.biologicaldiversity.org/programs/population_and_sustainability/sustainability/plastic_bag_facts.html
To replace these 100 billion plastic bags with paper bags we would need to cut down an extra 140 million trees a year.
https://www.simpleecology.com/eco/paper-or-plastic-shopping-bags
To convert just Americans from plastic bags to paper bags we would save 12 million barrels of oil but sacrifice 140 million trees every year.
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