Well, there ya go. I do that in all three bathrooms and my den here. See? I do more than virtue signal. I actually do help the environment by recycling, so......
Posted on 11/22/2019 7:34:18 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
What do you do when your community faces crushing poverty, failing schools, and disturbing homicide rates?
In Baltimore, the answer is: Ban plastic bags, of course. Yes, Charm City is saving the world, one plastic bag at a time.
The Baltimore City Council passed a citywide ban on retailers’ use of plastic bags at checkout on a 13-to-1 vote Monday. If that weren’t enough, the city will now put a 5-cent charge on paper bags.
The legislation now awaits signature by Mayor Bernard Young. If he signs it, it wouldn’t take effect until late next year.
Councilwoman Danielle McCray was the sole vote against the measure. Though she supported the ban on plastic bags, McCray opposed the new 5-cent tax on paper bags.
“I know that pennies add up,” she said on Baltimore’s WJZ-TV Channel 13. “I know that dollars add up, and my vote will be a consistent ‘no’ when it comes to unnecessary taxes on my constituents.”
The problem is, bag bans are not just annoying and inconvenient, they also add up to little more than virtue-signaling of being “environmentally conscious.”
There’s even evidence that they end up being worse for the environment.
A study by University of Sydney economist Rebecca Taylor in Australia found that banning plastic bags certainly caused customers to use fewer plastic shopping bags.
However, people began to use other kinds of plastic bags to make up for the lost supply.
Many customers actually reuse plastic bags for lining wastebaskets, among many other secondary uses. The study found that in areas that had plastic bag bans, there was a surge in the use of the thicker 4-gallon bags, which use more plastic.
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Environ-MENTAL-ism in Baltimore.
Maryland “Freak State” PING!
The Ban Plastic Bags Insanity is everywhere
“You know how many Dinosaurs had to die to make that plastic bag?”
Liberalism, Socialism and Communism are all Mental Disorders.
The stupidity of liberals never ceases to amaze me.
Well, there ya go. I do that in all three bathrooms and my den here. See? I do more than virtue signal. I actually do help the environment by recycling, so......
Adding plastic straws to your every Amazon order is as easy as pie and a lot cheaper. Gotta do it every order or it doesn't work.
Make leftists cry. Or don't and we all die in unspeakable torture.
With socialists it’s all about power and control.
The food bank where I volunteer uses used plastic bags by the hundreds to package food for our clients. There is a standing request for volunteers to bring in plastic bags for this use.
Maybe the Earth cooked up humans as a way of producing plastic. Maybe the Earth wants plastic.
Plastic is the most important compound in the earths biomass. It provides homes for countless small animals, generates beneficial bacteria, creates spawning beds for aquatic animals, provides environments for small critters in open seas, breaks down into tiny particles for plant growth, and on and on and on. There is no more beneficial element in the life cycle of our planet.
The place is infested with RATS. Diseased rodents. Vermin.
The place is governed by democRATS. Liberal politicians. Vermin.
First you take a plastic bag
Then you take rubber band
Over your head and now you’re dead...Weeeeeee
Does Baltimore have a free needle program yet?
What passes for brilliance now would have been fodder for early SNL and Woody Allen movies.
Ditto. And the city just banned business from using them. Thinking about Walmart: Thank You High-Density Shopping Bags, 8" x 16", White, 2,000/Carton $23.11 . That is less than a cent a piece correct?
Um, yeah, but of course they'll all be "necessary" taxes now, won't they?
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