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Originally Posted by topfiverecords
The energy used for your google search is equal to producing 100 plastic bags.
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...No it isn't...
https://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009...le-search.html
0.0003 kWh for a google search.
https://www.abs.gov.au/ausstats/abs@...0Article212004
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Around 0.48 megajoules (MJ) of energy is consumed to make one HDPE singlet bag including the energy content of the bag (the embodied energy). Another way of considering this is that the energy consumed by driving a car one kilometre is the equivalent of manufacturing 8.7 plastic bags (Nolan-ITU 2002).
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0.48 Megajoule, or equivalent to 0.133333 kWh per plastic bag
Where the hell do some of you get your info on such weird ass claims?
Plastic bags have unquestionably always been an intensively resource hungry and wasteful environmentally damaging process. The contention is the solution (reusable heavy plastic or cotton bags) is arguably worse than the initial problem.