Last week, the New York Times published an article by Grace Cook that got half of Twitter talking about “the cotton tote crisis.” At the center of this article—and the multiple tweets promoting it—is ...

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Long hailed by brands as the eco-friendly solution to single-use plastic bags, cotton totes have ironically become part of the problem. According to a 2020 study by Singapore's Nanyang Technological ...

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Cotton tote bags, once hailed as the solution to reduce pollution from single-use plastic bags, are not as environmentally-friendly as brands claim due to overproduction, according to a report.

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You can get cotton bags pretty much everywhere. How did an environmental solution become part of the problem? A laundry line of cotton totes accumulated by a single person since the race to replace ...