Are Cotton Tote Bags Really Good for the Environment?

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棉布手提袋真的那么環(huán)保嗎?
Cotton tote bags have become a means for brands, retailers and supermarkets to telegraph a planet-friendly mindset—or, at least, to show that the companies are aware of the overuse of plastic in packaging.
So far, so Earth-friendly? Not exactly. It turns out the wholehearted embrace of cotton totes may actually have created a new problem.
An organic cotton tote needs to be used 20,000 times to offset its overall impact of production, according to a study by the Ministry of Environment and Food of Denmark. That equates to daily use for 54 years—for just one bag.
Producing cotton is water-intensive, and figuring out how to dispose of a disused tote in an environmentally low-impact way is not nearly as simple as people think, according to Travis Wagner, an environmental science professor at the University of Maine.
棉布手提袋已經(jīng)成為品牌、零售店和超市傳達(dá)環(huán)保理念的一種手段,至少是表明企業(yè)對(duì)于過度使用塑料包裝的態(tài)度。(剩余1912字)