[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.

[Hoodat]

Plastic bags also take up one-seventh of the landfill space that a paper bag takes up.

Back in the 70s, the enviro-nazis were demanding things that would break down into simpler compounds once placed in landfills. Two decades later, they learned that these simpler compounds they had demanded were now leaching into our water supply. Idiots. So yes, locking up carbon in landfills would be the logical approach. But logic simply isn't their strong suit.