Posted on 06/20/2015 5:01:51 PM PDT by Libloather
When Chicago's plastic bag ban kicks in Aug. 1, many shoppers accustomed to carting groceries home in those ubiquitous plastic bags will instead walk away with ... nicer plastic bags..
Several retailers preparing for the citywide ban on the thin plastic bags bemoaned for cluttering landfills and littering parks, streets and waterways said they plan to offer customers reusable plastic bags that comply with the city ordinance, and don't plan to charge a fee.
The law, approved by the City Council last year in a 36-10 vote, permits stores to offer "reusable plastic bags" that are at least 2.25 mils thick, have handles and can carry at least 22 pounds for at least 125 uses.
(Excerpt) Read more at chicagotribune.com ...
Most folks, don’t follow your guide lines. When the immediate plastic bag ban, begins- the transferable disease, also gets a great headstart. We do not live in a non-transferable world.
“Was that to prevent global cooling in the 1970s?
No it was to prevent the cutting down of rain forest to make paper - even though paper was not made out of wood from rain forest. The cry was “An area the size of Kansas is being cut down every 16 days and when it is all gone we will all die.”
“... have handles and can carry at least 22 pounds for at least 125 uses.”
Or as they say in the trade in Chicago: ... have handles and can carry at least 10 kilos for at least 125 deliveries.
That’s a lot of work to just reuse grocery bags...
Agree.
I’m from Texas and working in Kali right now.
I have some of the cheap “re-usable” cloth bags. They get nasty in a hurry and do not stand up to washing. The $15 to $20 dollar canvas ones do, but I’ve just gone to paying 10 cent each and throwing the damn things away. I find that the reaction of most here.
You have the save the earth crowd that were already using the cloth bags. They have gained a few penny pincher’s that refuse the 10 cent bags. BUT, most people have resigned thenselve now that the 10 cent charge is part of the cost of groceries now.
I just keep a bottle of vinegar and one of peroxide right on my sink, so it gets to be automatic, takes very little time to take precautions.
If you think about farm workers, how dirty they must be, you want to wash all your stuff thoroughly…I rarely eat anything raw anymore, steam stuff briefly to kill germs. even throw lettuce into the steamer, and it's fine with other veggies, pretty sad on its own.
Old Chinese saying: Times change, and with them their demands.
BTW, my daughter has a 6-month-old doggie boy that's probably half red heeler, half Aussie….fine little guy:)
Let’s make food more expensive and put food retailers out of business. Who needs jobs!
Somebody should create a Save the Landfills bumper sticker. I mean it’s not like they were created to fill up with garbage, plus we just don’t have an endless supply of big holes in America anymore. It’s not like it was when the country was first started.
Most bags are recycled. They are also designed to decay in sunlight. Some liberal told me she’d experimented in her back yard by burying a plastic bag for a year in her garden. It didn’t decay at all.
I told her about the sunlight design. She was nonplussed and insisted that the ones that were buried would hurt animals. I said, “What does a worm or beetle do when it encounters a rock?” Go around, she answered. “Same thing with plastic”, I replied. She looked at me like she wanted to put me in an oven.
You've never heard of the Grand Canyon?
Spooky and once we’re gone it’s down the memory hole. Can’t somebody edit Wikipedia?
I tell them that trees grow back.
They are undeterred.
You’ll like this:
On land, plastic bags are one of the most prevalent types of litter in inhabited areas. Large buildups of plastic bags can clog drainage systems and contribute to flooding, as occurred in Bangladesh in 1988 and 1998[14] and almost annually in Manila.[15][16] Littering is often a serious problem in developing countries, where trash collection infrastructure is less developed than in wealthier nations.[17]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plastic_shopping_bag#Environmental_concerns
So we’re solving a third world problem by making the first world more miserable. It’s silly.
You need to cite to a source — (plus I don’t know how)
On a related not:
I’m waiting for someone to edit the Trayvon Martin article Wikipedia to add that Dylann Roof was radicalized by the George Zimmerman trial. It should be there.
All the news that’s fit to print...
And another thing. In any given landfill what % of the total volume is composed of plastic bags? If the answer is > .01% then I am surprised.
Agreed. It’s completely an emotional issue. It exists so Neo-Marxists can poke Americans in the eye.
Indeed!
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