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Is your canvas grocery tote bad for the environment?

KUOW | By Bill Radke
Published September 6, 2016 at 2:36 PM AKDT
Canvas bags may have a worse effect on the environment than plastic ones.
Flickr Photo/Karin Beil (CC BY NC ND 2.0)/https://flic.kr/p/5R6Qsb
Canvas bags may have a worse effect on the environment than plastic ones.

Bill Radke speaks with Noah Dillon, author of a recent Atlantic article about the perils of owning (and not using) canvas grocery totes.
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