We all know the feeling. We are in the supermarket with our jumble of purchases and the cashier casually asks, “Paper or plastic?” What a choice. Destroy more trees or use more oil? Bravo to author Daniel Imhoff for tackling the question that has many a concerned citizen frozen in stores throughout North America with sweaty palms and racing hearts.
The answer to the paper or plastic dilemma, for those of you that just can’t wait to read the book is: neither. Imhoff explains what we need to do is, “Eliminate, reduce, refill, and recycle as much as possible.” And while you are reducing use a reusable cloth tote bag. All the time, no exceptions.
Paper or Plastic: Searching for Solutions to an Overpackaged World is the definitive guide to understanding packaging and learning how to reduce our patterns of consumption. Imhoff gives a succinct background on the packaging dilemma and how much energy and resources it takes to produce each type of disposable packaging we commonly use. For example: to produce 1 ton of paper consumes over 98 tons of resources –think of that the next time you reach for a single use paper bag or single use coffee cup. Paper or Plastic reports 270 million tons of oil and gas are used each year to manufacture plastic packaging in the USA alone.
Paper or Plastic is a well-researched book, filled with interesting facts in a well-designed package from the award-winning team at Watershed Media. Without question, Paper or Plastic is the best book on the market about packaging and unnecessary consumption.
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Publisher: Watershed Media Book
168 Pages
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