Matt Davies for November 13, 2014

Been using cloth bags for years, they wash just fine. I must admit that biodgradable bags would be better for trash can liners, and the dog walks-sanitary engineering-wise.

It’s also a really good reason to go for industrial hemp production across the country, not just as approved by voters in Oregon- the other part of that legalization step!!

Bags made of cloth are fine, but bags of hemp are better.

Go the Irish route, mandatory charge 20cents a plastic bag. (it was 20 eurocents when I was last there, 15cents when it 1st started doing this in 2002).The Northern Irish started charging a mere 5pence a bag 18 months ago and saw a 72% reduction.

These countries have tiny populations yet the savings have been astonishing.

the do-gooders have run amok . . . .

Plastic bags are a very small percentage of landfill. Basically they make little difference. Paper bags would be much better. They actually work and hold things unlike the lousy thin plastic bags which have no form and easily spill their contents.and break. Paper is renewable. Farm trees are planted and then replaced when used. Trees actually consume carbon dioxide. Cloth bags are OK but become contaminated over time.

Alas, if only the bags DID hold together for centuries. Unfortunately, they eventually break down into tinier and tinier pieces, making it even harder to actually gather the bags and destroy the plastic molecules somehow (TDP?).

I love using cloth bags, though some cashiers still look at me funny(that’s what the hand sanitizer is for, ma’am). But I don ’ t get the cartoon. How are plastic bags going to kill us in our tracks?

I re-use my plastic shopping bags as trash can liners.

gh Downs – years ago. He was a truly investigating reporter.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-dVM76bmI4

Hugh Downa

Plastic bags were not introduced by environmentalists. They were used by grocery stores because they cost less. Retail stores followed.

use cloth bags it will help farmers

“Please don’t take my plastic bags away. I don’t what I would use to scoop poop!”My neighbors use small flushable bags designed for the purpose of picking up after your dog.

Plastic would be ok if there was an easy and convenient way to recycle them at the store where I shop. I use cloth bags, but I still accept plastic for wet stuff. I try to use the plastic bags at home for garbage or whatever, but then, they get thrown away.