May 27, 2008 - Canadian Plastics Industry Association said banning plastic shopping bags at the LCBO is a bad environmental decision "based on politics rather than scientific fact," and claimed that new plastic bags are more environmentally friendly than paper bags."The manufacture of paper bags is more energy intensive, requiring 2.2 times more non-renewable energy than plastic shopping bags, using 4.7 times more water and emitting 3.1 times more greenhouse gases," the association said in a...