Your massive tote bag collection is ruining the planet too, pal.

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By Eve AndrewsSep 6, 2016, 8:05 am90 pts
Canvas tote bags, the lynchpin accessory of any remotely green-minded shopper, may actually have a greater environmental impact than the king’s ransom of plastic bags you’ve stashed under the kitchen sink. Here’s the logic, according to Noah Dillon in The Atlantic: A cotton tote requires hundreds of…

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