Plastic or Paper or None of the Above ?

Now here's a good idea.

Telluride Daily Planet > Archives > News > Bag ban goes into effect Tuesday

Plastic bags are made from polyethylene, which is derived mostly from oil and natural gas, and although some bags are recycled, most of them end up in landfills. In our household, we tend to accumulate these plastic grocery bags, and sometimes recycle them by taking them back to the grocery store. We sometimes use them as trash bags (to the landfill), and sometimes just throw them away (landfill again) . It would be useful if our local trash pickup allowed us to recycle plastic bags. Even though we have enough reusable cloth bags, we seem to frequently forget them. If plastic was not an option, or if we had to pay extra for plastic bags, then we would have more incentive to break this convenient habit.