Those plastic bags that I've everyone so worried about damage to the environment, harm

to wildlife, and contribution to global warming, all those problems are certainly real ones.

Though each is far more nuanced and nowhere near as much of a slam dunk to answer, as

you probably think, it's time to give them a second look through the lens of science.

These plastic bags are coming right up on Skeptoid.

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Plastic Bags

Remember when paper or plastic was one of the biggest decisions you had to make at the store?

It turns out there's a clear answer to that conundrum, but not to just about any other

shopping bag question.

It's undeniable that plastic shopping bags reduced costs and increased convenience, they

cost something like a quarter of what paper bags do and take up a lot less space.

But then we started hearing scare stories about choking wildlife and immense patches of

floating bags in the ocean.

Gradually plastic bags became environmental villains, and shrill advocacy groups started

getting them banned all over the place.

The entire country of China, not exactly a model of environmentalism in many respects,

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