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This spring, the Providence City Council passed a ban on plastic bags. Soon, you’ll only find paper and reusable bags at stores in Rhode Island’s capital city. But are paper bags the ideal alternative to plastic? And what’s the environmental impact of making cloth bags?

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It feels like the right thing to do- washing and reusing sandwich bags instead of throwing them away- but is it? How much water and energy do we use when we’re cleaning a Ziploc bag? Is it more than what it takes to make a new one?

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Why are so many people talking about banning straws right now, and how much of a difference does skipping the straw actually make?

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Is it true that Rhode Island’s glass isn’t getting recycled?

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Since China recently stopped taking recycling from the US, does our recycling here in Rhode Island have somewhere to go?

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