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Plastic has plenty of issues, but the vague bs attempt to connect it to climate is especially bad. Plastic mailer packaging for instance is generally far lower carbon than more aesthetic paper/cardboard that the EU in particular loves.
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These are two largely orthogonal factors, right? One is energy cost to create, which is low for ie a plastic grocery bag and high for a cloth one. The other is reusability, which is the opposite for plastic vs cloth bags.
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I’m talking about single-use mailers, but plastic generally wins the reusable use case too. The number of uses required to recover higher cost of cloth is usually far higher than people realize and most people discard sooner.