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Biden Calls for Plastic Bag Ban: "We should not be allowing plastic."
Americans for Tax Reform ^ | 1/8/2020 | Adam Sabes

Posted on 01/08/2020 11:29:41 AM PST by Viking2002

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To: Two Kids' Dad; All
".... Leftists are frickin’ retar... (oh wait, I can’t use that word anymore)...."

And who exactly is telling you, you can't use "frickin' retards" anymore?

Leftist frickin' retards?

Ignore them. They're frickin' retarded. 🤪

81 posted on 01/08/2020 1:49:01 PM PST by HotHunt (Been there. Done that.)
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To: Viking2002

I guarantee you that Biden supported banning paper bags when that was the environmental issue du jour.


82 posted on 01/08/2020 1:55:54 PM PST by Erik Latranyi (The Democratic Party is communism)
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To: Repeal The 17th

Agreed. If people would just exercise a thimbleful of common sense, it would be a moot issue. DOA. I’m a fairly avid angler, and I always try to leave the local fishing holes a little tidier than I found them. I’ll pick up broken line, bait cups, all that jazz, and drop them into the garbage can at the parking lot. But I’m not going to play Ranger Rick, go plant wildflowers, and lecture everyone else how to behave.


83 posted on 01/08/2020 1:58:34 PM PST by Viking2002 (..........and Epstein didn't kill himself. Yeah, I went there.)
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To: Erik Latranyi

All politicians are guilty of this, but the further left you go, the more prominent it is: Finger, meet wind.


84 posted on 01/08/2020 2:00:32 PM PST by Viking2002 (..........and Epstein didn't kill himself. Yeah, I went there.)
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To: Viking2002

Hey, democrats in Virginia are trying to make our state more like Kenya.

I’m pretty sure they will be passing their bag ban soon. Although it won’t be a ban, it will be some weird “charge 5 cents a bag” thing, when none of the stores currently have a way to charge for plastic bags.


85 posted on 01/08/2020 2:07:35 PM PST by CharlesWayneCT
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To: be-baw
My wife and I have asked the local grocery store if they will take the bags back to reuse. They won't. So besides using them to line some small wastebaskets with, we have come up with another use for them.

We recently had to take in our two year old granddaughter to live with us full time.

We recycle the plastic bags from the grocery store to dispose of her dirty diapers in after she soils them.

Better that than just throwing them away empty. 😂

86 posted on 01/08/2020 2:08:13 PM PST by HotHunt (Been there. Done that.)
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To: SomeCallMeTim
We send our recycle plastic to these overseas countries for processing. China has banned such plastic for processing. That has put other countries into a flood of plastics for processing. What happens is these processors are overwhelmed with more plastic than they can process. I suspect that is what China was doing before the ban. The easy fix is to put it on boats and dump it in the ocean.

Then there is the cruise ship industry. Carnival Corporation has been slapped with a $20-million penalty for dumping raw sewage and plastic laden garbage into the ocean. This is the second time since 2016 they have been caught. How much do other ships do the same?

I looked for photos of ships dumping plastic waste into the ocean, and have found nothing. I think there is an effort to hide such practice by night dumping. However, the below photo shows the evidence:


87 posted on 01/08/2020 2:15:42 PM PST by jonrick46 (Cultural Marxism is the cult of the Left waiting for the Mothership.)
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To: Two Kids' Dad

>>>Leftists are frickin’ retar... (oh wait, I can’t use that word anymore)<<<

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKqceQLpuSY

NSFW


88 posted on 01/08/2020 2:16:56 PM PST by Kickass Conservative (Kill a Commie for your Mommy.)
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To: decal

[[[Oh, uh, Joe...read the sign.
TODAY IS WEDNESDAY

THE NEXT MEAL IS DINNER]]]

Those who are late do not get fruit cup!


89 posted on 01/08/2020 2:38:22 PM PST by headstamp 2 (There's a stairway to heaven, but there's a highway to hell.)
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To: catnipman
¡Exactamente!

Joe doesn't have an original thought in his head. He'll run with anything he thinks will get him votes.

90 posted on 01/08/2020 2:46:44 PM PST by HotHunt (Been there. Done that.)
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To: Parmy

Using ‘kitchen trash bags’ to live the garbage that foes to the Waste Management can every week is the only way they will pick up the can....IIRC.

They won’t pick up LOOSE items in the can because when they unload the large truck at he landfill, those loose items go flying all around.

Since most of these elite Dems have ‘staff’ to handle the things the rest of us deal with on a daily basis-—they don’t even know what they are talking about. When is the last time Biden took a bag of kitchen trash out to the WM green can for pickup???


91 posted on 01/08/2020 3:09:00 PM PST by ridesthemiles
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To: doug from upland

I drink a lot of flavored fizzy waters. Which used to be called seltzers in less pretentious times.
I use wine bags to make six packs.


92 posted on 01/08/2020 3:18:07 PM PST by MrEdd (Caveat Emptor)
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To: Viking2002

Bags like those linked below came out a while back. What did California do? Ban any bag that says ‘biodegradeable’ !! And insist we use (purchase for 10cents each) plastic bags that are 5x as thick as the original plastic bags and 5x more non-biodegradeable.

So we don’t need lectures from Biden or anyone else about ‘not allowing plastic’. But we would like answers as to who profited from the California legislation.

https://www.amazon.com/BioRift-Friendly-Biodegradable-Certified-Shopping/dp/B07VGKRK22/ref=sr_1_5?keywords=biodegradable+grocery+bags&qid=1578525721&sr=8-5


93 posted on 01/08/2020 3:27:02 PM PST by blueplum ("...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017)
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To: McGavin999; be-baw
Yeah, put your food into a bag that you used to transport raw poultry.

Exactly! Here in The People's Republik of Connecticut, they recently (and abruptly) banned plastic bags. (I saved a ton of old ones in my basementt, lol) If you forget your germy reusable bag, you are charged 10 cents for a paper bag.

If I buy poultry or some time of meat or fish product that might leak, I simply use the plastic *produce* bags and ties that the supermarket provides for free (amazingly they're not banned yet).

What's the point of banning plastic shopping bags, when there is still so much plastic in use? Plastic produce bags, plastic to wrap food items, etc. And people are buying plastic Glad, Hefty, etc. bags to line their wastebaskets, etc.

It's all so insane. FYI: You can still order plastic shopping bags on Amazon and Uline.com. Probably other sites as well.

94 posted on 01/08/2020 3:31:23 PM PST by nutmeg
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To: nutmeg

Well, he needs to calm down. He sounds hysterical.


95 posted on 01/08/2020 3:44:02 PM PST by McGavin999 (“Look into it” does not mean dig up dirt, it means find the truth)
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To: Viking2002
Ban plastic bags? What about the jobs lost at the plastic bag factory, Joe? Should they learn coding, too? 😋
96 posted on 01/08/2020 4:03:38 PM PST by Deplorable American1776 (Proud to be a DeplorableAmerican with a Deplorable Family...even the dog is, too. :-))
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To: Deplorable American1776

We have to ban coding. Code is racist.


97 posted on 01/08/2020 4:05:58 PM PST by Larry Lucido
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To: Viking2002

actually I would go along with this one... there is way too much plastic bag usage... totally not necessary. bring back paper bags! not reason water cant come in cartons like milk used to either...


98 posted on 01/08/2020 4:08:45 PM PST by sit-rep
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To: Deplorable American1776
Yeah, go from a $15 an hour lever pusher at a plastics factory to a Perl/C++ programmer. Then watch your new job get outsourced to Mumbai. You go back to the factory to get your old job back, and find out they filled it with a Mexican getting $10 an hour. 🙄
99 posted on 01/08/2020 4:11:37 PM PST by Viking2002 (..........and Epstein didn't kill himself. Yeah, I went there.)
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To: sit-rep
I want my Big Macs to come in the old Styrofoam containers that keep it hot on the drive home, and not cold in a soggy cardboard box like they do now. That is so bogus. And while I'm at it, I want my Pink Slime and beef tallow back, too. Mickey D's burgers are so bland now, the buns have more flavor. And the fries are only good if they're still hot enough to burn the roof of your mouth. And cook the damn things! They should be a crispy, dark golden brown that can stand up to an immense torrent of ketchup, not limper and whiter than Michael Jackson on a morgue slab.

Yeah, I'm old, white, and cranky.

100 posted on 01/08/2020 4:23:16 PM PST by Viking2002 (..........and Epstein didn't kill himself. Yeah, I went there.)
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