Posted on 07/31/2012 10:27:08 AM PDT by Sir Napsalot
If we don't have plastic grocery bags, we'll need to purchase new 'other things', including plastic bags, to replace the handy-dandy plastic grocery bags.
But I get the powerful feel-good feelings of reusing shopping bags at the grocery store, I've seen plenty in my area.
I have a great idea.
How about paper bags?
The leftist aka progressive treehuggers forced plastic bags on America. In the name of saving the planet. Now they want to ban them.
1. More expensive.
2. Cockroach vectors.
the canvas bags that everyone will be using and plopping down on the conveyor belt at the grocery store, will have all kinds of micro-organisms on them. I doubt people will ever clean the inside or OUTSIDE of these bags. These will then, in turn, spread disease... imagine putting your lettuce (which can sometimes peak over the plastic bag it’s in) on top of that same conveyor belt.
How am I gunna clean the litter boxes then?
I remember back in the early 70’s they switched us off paper and onto plastic to try and save trees. Idiots!
The environmentalists banned paper bags, remember? It cut down too many trees. That's how we ended up with plastic.
First we had the coming ice age. Then we had global warming. Today it's climate change.
The stupid liberals have no idea what they're doing, and the rest of us get stuck dealing with the consequences. Why won't they just sit down and leave the rest of the globe alone?
For those of us who are cat owners & clean litter boxes daily, this will be AWFUL!!!!!!!!!!!!! I’m sure a company will come along w/ small bags that we then have to BUY!!!!!!!!!!!!! It really never ends.
Sorry, I didn’t read your post before I wrote mine!
The plastic bags are just the right size for our bathroom trash can. We use them all the time. If we have to return to paper, we'll just throw them right in the trash - right along with those ugly, squiggly light bulbs.
In New Mexico, we used to identify the “F” rating of a dust devil by the number of Walmart plastic bags swirling around in the cyclone. 1 bag = F1, and so on.
If the bags are banned, an important meteorological tool will be lost to us.
Dog waste pickup.
Pickup of dead moles, rats, etc. from crawlspace.
Trash can liners in bathrooms and in the little trash can holder under the kitchen sink (that otherwise uses the expensive little plastic bags with 'ears' on a roll).
Deadheading the rhododendrons.
Hanging off a nail on the end of my sawhorse for tossing bent nails, wood scraps, etc.
Trash pickup along the road where passersby toss fast food trash, etc.
Hauling deceased frozen mallards for dog training.
Carrying home vegetables from friends and neighbors' gardens.
We use the darn things ALL the time for EVERYTHING.
I would stock up on them, if there is one in the works. And I fully expect in our corner of the Marxists city, this would already be in the proposal.
Ew, I didn’t think of those issues.
Good thing our tap water is safe, else we'd have billions of those evil pastic bottles to deal with.
I always used the small child trapped in a tumbleweed scale myself. And for judging rainfall, the speed at which a homeless person clutching a mattress traveled down the arroyo.
When I worked at Sun Healthcare, there was one day during a monsoon storm that a co-worker and I were watching the arroyo that bisected the campus fill up, and we joked about all the detritus that comes tumbling down when the waters flow. "Shopping carts, tumbleweeds, people..."
Next thing you know, this guy goes whooshing by, and looks right at us. We were up on the third floor of the building, so we couldn't do much, but a couple of others rushed out of the first floor and tried to catch him. The ABQ fire department eventually saved the day.
This was about 10 years ago, IIRC.
I use paper AND plastic.
We use them for the bathroom trash liner too!
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