Does comic collecting harm the environment?

It strikes me as a comic book collector that an awful lot of plastic is involved in our hobby. Despite my best efforts to use canvas bags in the supermarket, and to recycle paper and garbage at home, somehow I manage to use or throw out oodles of plastic bags for comics. Add to that the heavy plastic content of a CGC case and we have many pounds weight of possibly horrible pollutants on our hands. Is there an alternative? We hear that many a Golden Age book was stored in brown paper on shelves for decades, and many of these seem to have endured perfectly well, so might an acid-free paper bag cut to size serve as an alternative to plastic? Could the CGC case be made with very stiff card or some biodegradable material instead of plastic? Does anyone have any tips on green comics storage?? Do we know how green CGC cases are?

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