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Use a Cloth Bag

By Alexia Elejalde-Ruiz | RedEye reporter

Paper or plastic? Neither! Take a cloth bag with you to the grocery store.

There's much debate over paper vs. plastic shopping bags. Plastic requires less energy to produce and uses less space in landfills than paper, while paper is biodegradable and comes from a renewable resource. Bill Schleizer, an associate at the Delta Institute, a Chicago non-profit that develops ideas for sustainable communities, says paper is the lesser evil.

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