[NeilBlanchard]

Originally Posted by freebeard

Almost forgot: Boing Boing ran a story on shopping bags. Organic cotton shopping bags have to be used 20,000 times before they're better for the Earth than plastic disposables

That makes no sense, and it can't be correct. A cotton bag will decompose and return to the soil - so, it is infinitely better for the environment; no matter how many times you use it.