Had savetheplasticbag.com put forth only reasonable and provable arguments in support of plastic shopping bags, the site would be more helpful to those that wish to make good decisions in the "paper vs. plastic" debate.  But then, we'd be deprived of the tragi-comic relief that it provides us with through its faulty logic and incomplete assumptions. That the nature of the site is based solely on the "paper vs. plastic" issue leads us to question whether it is built on ignorance, distraction, or both.  

The problem with the question of "paper or plastic" is that it's a false dilemma; the assumption that one must choose from two alternatives, when in fact there are other viable options. In their Table of Advantages page, the exclusion of reusable shopping bags as a choice renders the comparisons practically unusable. Of course savetheplasticbag.com has an agenda, as do we. But it's intellectually dishonest to dismiss in full the reusable bag. And no, stating that plastic shopping bags are reusable doesn't count!

In future posts, we'll analyze the Table of Advantages line-by-line, including the reusable bag alternative.