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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Dump the plastic bag ban!
We used to have paper bags, but then the e-mentalists said we were killing all the trees.
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.
How ‘bout the Caulifornicators’ Plastic Straw ban? How’s that sh*t sandwich selling?
It’s stupid. The difference is we buy our PLASTIC bags now...
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.
I do frown on these huge styro containers for a lot of things. Waaaaay bigger than they need to be.
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.
Whenever I go to California, I bring plastic bags into the store, from their Nevada counterparts. Always gets comments.
Now they WANT to kill all the trees because trees are bad for the environment... or something.
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
National socialism?
“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.
Executive summary”: more totalitarian government needed (for other people).
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.
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 !
I do not like to see plastic bags in trees.
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.
Littering should be a capital offense. I’m serious.
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