Posted on 03/31/2020 6:57:42 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
When I grew up, and for most of my life after that, at a grocery store, the clerk would ring up my groceries and put them in a useful paper or plastic bag emblazoned with the store’s motto. I’d take the bag home and use it again. If it was paper, I used it for book covers, storing annual tax-relevant documents, wrapping packages destined for UPS, and holding recycling. If it was plastic, I used it for bathroom garbage bags, packing school lunches, padding breakables for shipping, etc.
All that changed when California decided to "ban the bag." The reason given was that paper and plastic bags destroyed the environment. Paper bags were guilty because they killed trees. Plastic bags were guilty because they polluted waterways.
It didn’t matter that the trees came from carefully replenished trees, rather than from virgin forests. Nor did it matter that the bags polluting waterways didn’t come from America, they came from Asia and Africa. Facts didn’t matter. Gaia was hurting, and we had to suffer.
One of the most irritating things about the ban was that, while stores could still provide bags, consumers had to pay a dime per bag if they wanted them. In other words, consumers were suddenly being taxed for a harmless product they once received for free. At the same time, the bags we were now forced to pay for also became more fragile and, therefore, were harder to put to secondary uses. They usually ripped by the time they entered the house.
The real problem, though, was that the reusable bags people that replaced plastic and paper were disease vectors – something that all the politicians banning them knew or should have known. San Francisco (of course) was the American city that led the way
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And this is what ole “Hero” Andy was busy enacting and enforcing in NY as this virus was crashing down upon us,
Liberal Marxists do things just to be doing them TO SOMEONE ELSE. They do not do them because of a positive effect. Hence, the follow-the-leader game with California in the lead, always. If the Kalis can get away with it, then let’s do it!!!!
My local supermarket says that the reusable cloth bags are “temporarily” banned from the store.
I don’t see how they reverse course. These germ-laden bags of death are going to be okey-dokey in a few months? The public should just say No.
“If it was paper, I used it for book covers,...”
That brings back memories of school back in the mid-50s.
Those grocery store plastic bags also come in handy when its time to clean the cat litter box (be certain to check first if the bag has a hole in the bottom!)
One correction to the article....the bags were never free. They’re a cost factored in the price of groceries sold at the store.
Why would I cover my e-reader with a paper bag?
Hmmm...now that I think about it, I do remember something called a “book.”
Yes! I well remember cutting the paper grocery bags and taping them, to cover my textbooks.
A few years ago, I bought 1000 of the plastic bags from Sam’s for $10.00, equating to one cent per bag. Imagine how little it cost per bag for a bulk buyer like Wal-Mart.
Whether Liberal Marxist or pantheist humanist, all are miserable souls who seek to make the rest of us as miserable as they are.
I don’t give these politicians the benefit of doubt for ANY reason ever. I believe they were fully aware of the health risks of reusable bags and decide it would be a great way to eliminate a lot of Older People to help save their failing Medical System here in California.
YES! THEY WANTED TO KILL PEOPLE!.
If you were taping them to your School Books YOU were doing it WRONG!
BUMP
Absolutely! We double-bag to minimize dirty litter seepage. Works like a charm!
We did the book covers, too.
Banning those thin plastic bags was a boon for plastic bag manufacturers. Instead of using the grocery plastic bags for trash can liners, people bought trash can liners, which were a heavier plastic that takes much longer to break down.
Right...it was a fold and tuck system.
I guess their...if it just saves one life....doesn’t apply here.
Not taping TO the books. Taping the corners only, so they would stay on the books.
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