if you used a cotton tote instead of plastic bags: what it is worth, in numbers

0 → 0 a cotton bag has to be used about 7,000 times to beat a plastic bag on climate. organic cotton, about 20,000.

method per-person, per-year estimate from the cited study (Danish EPA 2018), world-average where the study allows; the million-people column is straight multiplication. 'for scale' divides by 0.8 t CO2e, the meat-free yardstick.

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