In a world gone “green”, everyone these days seems to be on the re-purpose, re-use and recycle, ban wagon. Yet do we truly understand what works, what does not, what is hype, what is real and just what does “going green” really mean?
We can start with the simplest of questions asked every time we visit almost any store – paper or plastic? Of course, this is a huge debate and has been for quite some time. Lets look at them one at a time.
Plastic bags are made from petroleum. Yep, you guessed it – oil. Now to be fair it must be mentioned that plastic is made of a by-product of oil refining.
