Earlier you said this "I've yet to see a timely replacement of petrochemicals".
What did you mean, exactly? Did you mean plastic uses more petrochemicals than paper to manufacture?
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Paper bags use high amounts of wood, petroleum, and coal. A single paper bag uses the energy equivalent of 550 kJ of wood as feedstock. It also uses 500 kJ of petroleum and 350 kJ of coal for process energy. The total amount of energy used by a single paper bag is 1,680 kJ.
The feedstock materials in plastic bags are natural gas and petroleum. Two plastic bags use 990 kJ of natural gas, 240 kJ of petroleum, and 160 kJ of coal. The energy used for two plastic bags is 1,470 kJ. Two plastic bags use 87% the amount of energy used by one paper. http://www.ilea.org/
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