1. Disposable Shopping Bags

2. Why the Plastic Bag? Easy & Convenient Cheap Reusable (?)

3. Why NOT the Plastic Bag? Nuisance & Litter Single-Use (or at most, twice) Made From Oil Toxic for Wildlife Reusable Options Exist

4. What a Nuisance! Home LandfillRecycling Facility

5. LITTER

6. Made From Oil 504 million gallons of petroleum for 100 billion plastic bags used in the U.S. EVERY YEAR

7. Wildlife

9. ImpactPaperPlastic Lifecycle EnergyMoreLess Carbon FootprintMoreLess Water ConsumptionMoreLess Other PollutantsMixed RecyclingEasierHarder Landfill ImpactsSlightly LessSlightly More Litter & WildlifeLessMore

10. Paper or Plastic?

11. Neither!