Plastic bags are bad, plastic boobs and botox and condoms, okay. Geez.
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In New Mexico, dust devils are ranked by the number of Wal-Mart bags swirling around in them. 5 bags = an F5 dust devil.
Imagine the look of horror on the faces of this new crop of protesters when they find out that the bubbles in soft drinks are CO2!
The Horror. My Whole Foods only uses plastic bags in order to save the trees!! So I bought a stylist grocery carry bag decorated with the communist Frida Kahlo's image in rhinestones. Revenge is sweet.
I have mixed feelings about this. I always ask for plastic bags at the grocery store because I re use them as trash bags around the house and in the car. But a friend of mine, after a trip to India, told me how areas of that country are littered with plastic bags. She said the trees and bushes are so full of plastic bags blowing in the wind that the scene is supernatural looking, especially at night.
Good for San Francisco! - The number of paper bags we can get out of one Giant Sequoia boggles the mind- and they're renewable!
Plastic bags are good for picking up after your dog. Wonder if the biodegradable ones will disintegrate when used for that purpose?
Of all the things San Francisco needs to fix, this is somewhere down several million in priority.
The story left out that this would only be for grocery stores that gross over $2 million/year.
Plastic is good keep keep around while traveling in case someone had to puke.
Also, the stores make blue ones and our recycling (aluminum, glass, plastic) goes in them. But we get more than we use. Not enough recycling or puking.
i just got back from the grocery store tonight
and i always take my own canvas bags. i hate
all that plastic bag mess. i've had these bags
for about 15 yrs now. they are stronger, they
wash up easily and i tell the bagger to load
'em up! they're much stronger than anything at
the grocery store.
Glad or Hefty Inc. must be located in Queen Nancy's district, right next to Star-Kist. They're seeing lost sales because people use the shopping bags for trash bags. It's a lobbying effort to eliminate the competition. Foil hat alert!
Not in favor of a ban, but you can about 5 times as much of your groceries into a paper bag as you can in a plastic bag.
No paper, no plastic? What are they supposed do with their groceries? Shove 'em up their... Oh, wait. It's San Francisco.
Here we goooo
What about the trees?
I'm glad I don't live in San Francisco. I'd have a terrible time trying to pick up dog poop with paper bags, as opposed to the nifty plastic ones. :)
(Used to be we'd rake up the poop and toss it in the trash, but since the plastic bags trend with dog-walkers, I've found it's so much easier to just pick it up with hand in plastic bag.)
My grocery store pays 6 cents for each canvas bag you use. They also sell cheap but sturdy canvas bags for a buck a piece. The number of people that reuse bags has considerably increased since they started this. Maybe SF should take note.