[Hoodat]

Likewise for the plastics reduction nuts. Plastic grocery bags - oooga boooga -

As the check out people at Trader Joes are bagging my groceries in plastic per my request, I use the opportunity to point out to them that 85 plastic bags can be recycled for the energy it takes to recycle one paper one.

[Right Wing Assault]

It is funny to hear econuts say things such as, "A plastic bag takes 10,000 years (or whatever number they pull out of the air) to break down in a landfill."

To which I say, "So what? Why is that bad? Don't you folks want to lock up that nasty carbon? If plastic breaks down, it releases that nasty carbon."

Therefore, every plastic bag put in a landfill should be seen as a good thing by them.