Some Bags Are More Equal Than Others

06.08.1211:57 AM ET

Brave New Plastic-Free World

WUHAN, CHINA - OCTOBER 29: (CHINA OUT)  Used plastic bottles remain heaped up at a plastics recycling mill as the global financial crisis starts to bite in China's recycling industry on October 29, 2008 in Wuhan of Hubei Province, China. Many of China's recycling mills and farms are being forced to stop collecting recyclable scrap materials due to the nose-diving order prices as those of oil, metal and other commodities have plunged worldwide amid a worsening economic outlook.  (Photo by China Photos/Getty Images)
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As the city of Toronto debates a total ban on plastic bags, a National Post contributor contemplates a bag-less future: