Which of these is a cost of using paper grocery bags?

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A. Paper bags are large and hold a lot of groceries.

B. Paper bags are more readily biodegradable.

C. Paper bags are produced from a renewable resource.

D. Paper bags tear easily and fall apart when wet.

D. The fact paper bags tear easily and fall apart when wet is a limitation (cost) of using them, while the other options are pros.

Paper bags tear easily and fall apart when wet.

Explanation:

To protect the environment from the harmful chemicals and to save the resources the human should minimize the use of plastic bags. The reduce, reuse and recycle strategy must be adopt to save the environment.

The paper bags can be used in place of plastic bags because plastic bags causes harmful pollution. The plastic bags are biodegradable and but they tear easily and when wet they tear off easily. The paper bags can be recycled.

Thus, the correct answer is option (D).