Plastic Industry Strikes Back.

The article reports on the conflict regarding the plan of other cities in the U.S. to ban the single-use of plastic bags in grocery and drug stores. It states that the plastic industry are threatening to sue over increased paper bag use. According to Keith Christman, senior director of packaging for the American Chemistry Council, plastic bag manufacturing uses 40 to 70 percent less energy than paper and emits less than half the greenhouse gas emissions as producing paper bags. However, Andy Peri, campaigner for Green Sangha, even if a plastic bag is recycled properly it still has a short life span.