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- From: Helen.Sternheim@f109.n321.z1.fidonet.org (Helen Sternheim)
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- Subject: Recycle
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- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 92 20:33:57 PDT
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- In a message of <21 Dec 92 10:37:21>, Adam Clark (1:346/14) writes:
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- AC> Hello, my name is Adam Clark. I am a very concerned teenager
- AC>that lives in Bonners Ferry, Idaho. At our local grocery store,
- AC>the food baggers usually ask me if I want my groceries in a paper
- AC>or plastic bag. Which one is actually better in enviromental
- AC>terms? I don't know, you tell me!
- AC> I realize it must take alot of trees to make paper bags, which
- AC>are used in stores across our nation everyday. I also realize that
- AC>harmful chemicals are used in producing plastic bags and they are
- AC>harmful when deposited in our land fills. Both plastic and paper
- AC>can be recycled, but not everyone recycles.
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- The true environmentally aware shopper brings his own reusable cloth shopping
- bag to the market. That way he uses neither the paper or the plastic bag that
- the super market supplies.
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