{"id":22,"date":"2007-05-21T12:55:35","date_gmt":"2007-05-21T19:55:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/?p=22"},"modified":"2007-06-05T08:50:03","modified_gmt":"2007-06-05T15:50:03","slug":"plastic-is-better-than-paper-since-1990","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/2007\/05\/21\/plastic-is-better-than-paper-since-1990\/","title":{"rendered":"plastic is better than paper, since 1990"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ilea.org\/lcas\/franklin1990.html\">http:\/\/www.ilea.org\/lcas\/franklin1990.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-indent:10pt;\"><span style=\"color:#0000dd;\"><br \/>\nThrough a lifecycle energy analysis, plastic is the better bag. At current recycling rates two plastic bags use less energy and produce less solid, atmospheric, and waterborne waste than a single paper bag. Moreover future improvements only increase preference in plastic bags. Increasing recycling rates and reducing the 2-to-1 ratio through proper bagging techniques would further the energy preference for plastic bags.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Although, there was a study that this article was based on that *may* have come to a different conclusion (see the first footnote).<\/p>\n<p>This site was kind of nice anyway, if you haven&#8217;t seen it before &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ilea.org\/index2.html\">http:\/\/www.ilea.org\/index2.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- technorati tags start --><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:right;font-size:10px;\">Technorati Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/efficiency\" rel=\"tag\">efficiency<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/environmentalism\" rel=\"tag\">environmentalism<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/ilea\" rel=\"tag\">ilea<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/research\" rel=\"tag\">research<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/sustainability\" rel=\"tag\">sustainability<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/tools\" rel=\"tag\">tools<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- technorati tags end --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/www.ilea.org\/lcas\/franklin1990.html Through a lifecycle energy analysis, plastic is the better bag. At current recycling rates two plastic bags use less energy and produce less solid, atmospheric, and waterborne waste than a single paper bag. Moreover future improvements only increase preference &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/2007\/05\/21\/plastic-is-better-than-paper-since-1990\/\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}