Nothing comes without a ‘cost’. Even posters, rallies, and blogging against plastic have an environmental cost (paper, trash, travel, electricity, etc).
The global warming scare industry has HUGE environmental impact costs for all of their blather. If they wanted to stop polluting they’d shut the hell up.
The demonKKKrats’ America: banning plastic straws and bags while handing-out hypodermic needles, indicting the NRA as terrorists while allowing Antifa, BLM etc to riot in the streets, leaving Veterans homeless while giving free healthcare and college education to criminal illegal aliens. Plastic straws and bags? Heh.
In NYC we have an Italian market chain, Iavarone’s, which uses the sturdiest plastic bags around. They are now selling their stock in boxes of 1000 for $45. They can be reused. Are great for disposing of cat litter. I bought a box of a 1000. Hope to live long enough to use them all.
Political leaders?? No, just leftist liberal whack-jobs exercising their rabid desire to USE POWER TO TAKE THINGS AWAY from the free public.
Crazy people need something to focus on. Plastics works for them.
Use that oh so chic and relevant cloth bag to carry your gallon of Milk (in Plastic jug!), your bread (in plastic bag), your cheese (in individual plastic wraps), your meat (wrapped in plastic), Your condiments (in plastic bottles, oh and your ENVIRONMENTALLY FRIENDLY bottled water (in plastic of course).
Just keep this as a handy rule of thumb. It will help you judge the merit of various arguments on various subjects:
Everything every liberal says is a lie. Every single time.
There is a huge mass of discarded plastic in the middle of the Pacific ocean. The problem is in peoples’ actions - not allowing plastic articles to go into storm sewers, into rivers, and into the ocean.
Banning plastic bags will not solve the problem.
Here in Ct they made it law that people would have to pay 10 cents a bag. So people did what people do, and that is improvise. They just steal the grocery stores hand baskets.
No one says a word bout disposable diapers. By volume, I would guess that they are a much larger problem than anything else plastic.
Plastic grocery bags DO dissolve in less than 3 years. Cornstarch is in them now, and I have ones in my garage that are flaking apart.
I’ve read several articles by this guy. He makes great well thought out arguments against recycling.
When we moved to Maryland, our town charged for trash by the bag but recycling was free, so we dumped a bunch of trash in the bin. I refused to allow my wife and kids to use water to wash out our trash.
Last year, they changed and issued us large rolling bins, one for trash and one for recycling. The recycling bin gets used a couple times a year, because it holds lots of leaves and yard waste. Otherwise, it site behind the house.
I refuse to play their stupid games.
I reuse plastic shopping bags that I get (despite trying to use my canvas bags in the store instead—never seem to bring enough into the store) to line trash cans and to collect dirty cat litter for disposal. In a pinch, I’ve used them to pad packaged materials I’m mailing. They certainly don’t just get thrown away after one use. And I would never simply toss them where they could find their way into the ocean, only too aware of the peril they place sea turtles and other marine life in.
I remember my grandmother went shopping with string bags. MUCH easier to clean that the full “reusable” bags, especially now that such string bags are made from nylon, which washes easily.
My solution will be to drive 10x more and just pick up a handful of items that I don’t need a bag to carry. So I’ll burn more gas, big deal to them I guess.
Go to grocery store.
Buy bread in a plastic bag.
Buy meats in plastic packaging.
Buy produce in plastic packaging or put it in a plastic bag.
Buy milk, juice, creamer and water in plastic containers.
Buy condiments and spices in plastic containers.
Go to check out...
Sorry no plastic bags!
George Carlin: “the earth doesn’t share our prejudice towards plastic. Plastic came from the earth. The earth probably sees plastic as just another one of its children. Could be the only reason the earth allows us to be spawned from it in the first place: it wanted plastic for itself. Didn’t know how to make it, needed us. Could be the answer to the age old philosophical question, “Why are we here?” “Plastic, a**holes.”
Movements like this give self-loathing people a shot at empowerment, an excuse to scold and belittle their neighbors.
It’s not about the environment. It’s all about control.