Posted on 02/12/2024 4:38:37 PM PST by Ronaldus Magnus III
Plastic has been found everywhere scientists have looked: From the deepest oceanic trenches to the highest alpine peaks. Petroleum-based plastics do not biodegrade.
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More Horsepuckey from Horsepuckey Central.
I remember when the Deepwater Horizon oil spill occurred. There were 'scientists' who tried to questimate the total amount of oil that was released into the Gulf. After they determined an amount, they set off to find the huge underwater and surface oil. There was much less than expected. What real scientists found were huuuuge plumes of microorganisms that eat, yes eat, oil. A massive (more than huuuuge) amount of oil naturally seeps into the oceans from the ocean floor. IT'S PART OF THE EARTH. It is food for some parts of the Earth.
A quick search finds much information on our little buddies that dine on petroleum and plastic.
""Natural and synthetic plastics are degraded by the action of microorganisms including bacteria, actinomycetes, and fungi (Ishigaki et al., 2004; Alshehrei, 2017).""
First they ban paper bags…the cause acid rain
Then the ban plastic bags…..they don’t degrade
Then the find that bacteria in cloth bags are spreading disease
Eventually your shopping trips will be limited to what you can carry in your arms.
Petroleum-based plastics are also largely completely inert....
ie... they don’t really harm the environment.
Thanks.
But what is the backfire part?
I hate the plastic bag ban.
The city of Philadelphia banned single use plastic bags about three years ago. I’ve never gotten in the habit of bringing my own bag, even though I visit the Acme 5 or so times a week.
Typically, what I’ll do, is just take that plastic hand-held basket and take it home with me. Sooner or later, I’ll collect so many that I’ve forgotten to bring back, that I’ll just throw them away. And I don’t want my neighbors to know what I’m doing, so I throw them away in a lawn/leaf bag.
I don’t think this is working out they way they’d envisioned, but that’s par for the course for liberal schemes.
You can go to any restaurant supply company in California and by plastic bags in fifty pound boxes.
A good start would be closing the border.
I’ve seen the trash trails left by the illegal invaders.
Sooner or later some organism is going to evolve and it will find plastic very tasty.
I do most of my shopping at Costco and end up with huge cardboard boxes. How do you dispose of those? Did you know it’s against the law in Florida to burn anything that is not “natural” wood? You can’t, by law burn a 2x4 or a woven basket. They have “officers” who look and are armed like regular cops who patrol city neighborhoods. You can get arrested and charged as a “criminal” for burning anything but “natural” wood. They’ll even sift through the ashes and bag and tag the evidence. (This all happened to a friend.)
Note, they only work a forty-hour week with weekends off.
Developers are exempt. Drive by any construction site and you’ll see fires as they burn scrap. The law is only for us citizens. It’s also, I’ve discovered, only enforced against the white middle class.
We don’t have one here in NH so I save EVERY bag I can from the grocery store.
They get transported to be reused elsewhere. They are NOT *single use bags* I use them for all kinds of other things, often trash in trash cans until they are no longer good or get a hole in them.
Me too.
How about Covid masks. The elastic loops must be wrapped around many precious ocean creatures.
Funny side note- the guy playing the indian in those ads was actually Italian!
CC
Amazon has them. The USPS will deliver.
In a geological time scale, they will.
But you have to BuY them. You used to be able to recycle the ones from the store. I bring everything out to the main trash can in open defiance of the extra, unnecessary expense.
The backfire part is that more plastic bags are being used than before the supposed plastic bag ban. The thin plastic bags have been replaced by thicker ones.
No kidding. The number of masks I've seen lying around parking lots is appalling.
I remember being in the 30A area of the Florida Panhandle in the years after the DH spill. I don’t remember more oil on the beach than we had from seeps in the mid-60s, when we would regularly go to Panama City Beach from L.A. when I was a kid.
L.A. of course being Lower Alabama, where we lived at the time.
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