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Here is an extract from a commercial website regarding roach infestation:
The German cockroach loves grocery bags. This roach will infest a stack of paper grocery bags at the grocery store and then sneak home in between the flaps in the bottom of the bag. You will not even know that the roaches are there until the bag is put away or used. The roach may stay hidden until it is dark and then come out to infest your home. The best way to prevent this type of intrusion is to keep your paper grocery bags stored outside or in a sealed container.
Check any pest control website and they will tell you the same thing. For example, Orkin advises as follows:
Disposing of cardboard boxes and paper grocery bags, which provide shelter sites for cockroaches.
Terminix gives similar advice:
In homes, do not store paper bags under the sink or elsewhere in the kitchen. [Click on the "Tips for Control" tab on the Terminix website.]
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. It states on its website that in order to prevent roach infestation:
Get rid of stacks of newspapers, paper bags, and cardboard boxes.
Politicians should consider the effect of paper bags on the roach problem in apartment buildings. It is unfair to impose this problem on people.
Ireland imposed a plastic bag fee in 2002, resulting in a massive swtich to paper bags. According to a recent report, Ireland has experienced a fourfold increase in cockroach outbreaks over the last three years. While paper bags did not necessarily cause the cockroach problem in Ireland, they will greatly aggravate the problem especially for apartment dwellers.
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