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We’re environmentalists: America’s haphazard plastic bag bans are not working
The Hill ^ | 05/10/2024 | BRAD LISKI AND LASSE GUSTAVSSON

Posted on 05/10/2024 2:07:27 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

If you’ve visited a grocery store in the last year, chances are high that you saw single-use plastic bags swapped for another reusable bag (also made with plastic, but we’ll get to that later). Or maybe your local grocery store hasn’t even made this trade-off, despite the law stating they must do so. On your walk home from that very store, you probably saw plastic bags still littered along the street.

This is all part of the current problem with single-use plastic bans on bags, straws and takeout containers across the U.S. They are disjointed and, for the average person, pretty confusing to understand — which is why they’re not working.

It’s commendable that states have taken the initiative to develop these bans, but they ultimately highlight the urgent need for national coordination in addressing plastic pollution in a way that has a long-term impact.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: america; bans; ecoterrorism; enviromentalists; plasticbag; stupid
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OH NOES!! Put your mask on or something.
1 posted on 05/10/2024 2:07:27 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Dump the plastic bag ban!


2 posted on 05/10/2024 2:08:57 PM PDT by Reno89519 (If Biden is mentally unfit to stand trial, he is mentally unfit to be president. He needs to resign.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

We used to have paper bags, but then the e-mentalists said we were killing all the trees.


3 posted on 05/10/2024 2:11:22 PM PDT by Flag_This (They're lying.)
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To: Reno89519

When we visit family in NY, I always ask for a bag, when they tell me how much, I decline and say something about glad I live in a free state.


4 posted on 05/10/2024 2:12:14 PM PDT by RebelTXRose (Our Lady of Fatima, Pray for us! PRAY THE ROSARY!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

How ‘bout the Caulifornicators’ Plastic Straw ban? How’s that sh*t sandwich selling?


5 posted on 05/10/2024 2:12:26 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Weird how the invading hordes of illegal foreign deadbeats didn't start until FJB took the throne.)
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To: Reno89519

It’s stupid. The difference is we buy our PLASTIC bags now...


6 posted on 05/10/2024 2:12:50 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: Reno89519

NO! take fingerprints off of any plastic litter and track the scum using the same methods and technology used to tracok down the J6 Crowd. 2 to 1 more democrats that republicans would be guilty...but only republicans would be punished.


7 posted on 05/10/2024 2:13:59 PM PDT by Qwapisking ("IF the Second goes first the First goes second" L.Star n )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I do frown on these huge styro containers for a lot of things. Waaaaay bigger than they need to be.


8 posted on 05/10/2024 2:14:26 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Pretty sure that these plastic bag bans have only increased plastic consumption... I was pretty miffed about the whole thing but then realized that for 8 cents a bag, I now get bigger, stronger bags that never tear, plus they are cheap enough to keep using them to line small garbage bins.


9 posted on 05/10/2024 2:17:35 PM PDT by Sparticus (Primary the Tuesday group!)
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To: RebelTXRose

Whenever I go to California, I bring plastic bags into the store, from their Nevada counterparts. Always gets comments.


10 posted on 05/10/2024 2:21:44 PM PDT by Reno89519 (If Biden is mentally unfit to stand trial, he is mentally unfit to be president. He needs to resign.)
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We used to have paper bags, but then the e-mentalists said we were killing all the trees.

Now they WANT to kill all the trees because trees are bad for the environment... or something.

11 posted on 05/10/2024 2:22:02 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is █████ ██ ████ ████ ████ █ ███████ ████. FJB.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

The Earth doesn’t share our prejudice toward plastic. Plastic came out of the Earth. The Earth probably sees plastic as just another one of its children. Could be the only reason the Earth allowed 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 our age-old egocentric philosophical question, “Why are we here?”

“Plastic… a__hole.”

-George Carlin


12 posted on 05/10/2024 2:23:22 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

National socialism?


13 posted on 05/10/2024 2:23:24 PM PDT by Ge0ffrey
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To: Sparticus

“Paper or plastic”? I always answer “plastic”. I get a lot of secondary use out of the plastic ones. Paper ones not so much. They get soggy when wet, for one thing.


14 posted on 05/10/2024 2:28:23 PM PDT by Chad C. Mulligan
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Executive summary”: more totalitarian government needed (for other people).


15 posted on 05/10/2024 2:31:24 PM PDT by libertylover (Our biggest problem, by far, is that almost all of big media is AGENDA-DRIVEN, not-truth driven.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Single use? Go to a flea market or yard sale. I see plenty reused. At home they are trashbags and a go to carry all. Yard work they’re very handy and useful for bagging road kill.


16 posted on 05/10/2024 2:31:25 PM PDT by bleach (If I agreed with you, we would both be wrong.)
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To: Ge0ffrey

I have a bunch of canvas ‘convention tote bag’., they are great for grocery shopping… and I do all the shopping. No more cheap plastic bags tearing !


17 posted on 05/10/2024 2:31:26 PM PDT by Bulwinkle (Bulwinkle, a.k.a. Daffy Duck )
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To: Reno89519

I do not like to see plastic bags in trees.


18 posted on 05/10/2024 2:32:29 PM PDT by Kenny500c ( )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Our California Safeway uses the medium duty thicker plastic bags. The bag says “good for up to 125 uses.” That’s very optimistic, but I do get a lot of re-uses out of them. At least when I remember to grab some in the car and take them into the store. It takes a moment to refold them so they lie flat for storage.

It annoys me to no end having to pay for bags, but at least I do get lots of uses out of them.


19 posted on 05/10/2024 2:33:37 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“When exposing a crime is treated like a crime, you are being ruled by criminals” – Edward Snowden)
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To: Qwapisking

Littering should be a capital offense. I’m serious.


20 posted on 05/10/2024 2:36:20 PM PDT by frogjerk (More people have died trusting the government than not trusting the government.)
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