It’s not the plastic bags, it’s the PEOPLE that don’t dispose of them properly! I’ve seen mattresses, zillions of cigarette butts, sofas, pop cans, tires, you name it, in ditches. Are we going to ban all those TOO??? Or how about people just BE more responsible?
The do-gooders will not stop with banning plastic bags. They wish to control every aspect of daily life and will not stop until the populace is living under a politically correct form of a totalitarian state.
Oddly enough – that won´t help the inviroment all that much. Especially if it means using paper bags instead. Plastic bags can be made from recyclable plastic, or bio degradable plastic (surprise, it isn´t all a waste product these days). So inform people better of these things.
I’ve long recycled plastic bags to pick up dog poop, collect veggies from my own garden, and other secondary uses, but yes, the disregard of most folks has made them extremely hazardous in the environment. This could be in part rectified by making their production from biodegradable “plastics” mandatory, as this would even reduce the problem from those used to pick up that pooh, or other organic garbage.
But, if you want the REALLY DISGUSTING plastic menace; “disposable” diapers. It was only a short while after there appearance that they became thicker than falling leaves alongside many of our roads and highways as traveling mommies and daddies found them “so convenient”.
Am I the only one who remembers those plastic bags were good cuz they’re made of recyclable materials? If these people are going to change their minds every 20 years, why bother?.If the problem is, animals get snagged in the handles, why not leave the handles off? redesign the bag?
I never hear see or hear any mention of banning the plastic bags in the produce section of every supermarket (including Whole Foods)…you can pick up after your dog with those, too.
BTW: have used cloth bags for decades, and a lot of stores will now provide you with free cloth bags for wine as well. A note: part of the complaint from the plastics industry is that cloth bags are unsanitary: it’s called a washing machine, and works quite well to disinfect them, epecially after packing meat in them.
Also, though Woodsie isn’t seen too often any more, the last grizzly in California was killed in 1921, they were common throughout the state when the “49’ers” came for the gold, didn’t take long for panicky easterners to come west an wipe them out, because they were “scary”- so maybe the idiotic fears of cougars (20 something total human fatalities, nation-wide, in historic record) or wolves (one proven human fatality in the history of the U.S. and that was in Alaska), isn’t something new? Yes, bears have killed more folks, something over 50, but most of those folks were being idiots, like trying to shoot them with “pop-guns” of low caliber, and just making them mad.
larryrhoades over 9 years ago
What is the character on the left?
Donaldo Premium Member over 9 years ago
way to go
Don Winchester Premium Member over 9 years ago
It’s not the plastic bags, it’s the PEOPLE that don’t dispose of them properly! I’ve seen mattresses, zillions of cigarette butts, sofas, pop cans, tires, you name it, in ditches. Are we going to ban all those TOO??? Or how about people just BE more responsible?
WestNYC Premium Member over 9 years ago
The do-gooders will not stop with banning plastic bags. They wish to control every aspect of daily life and will not stop until the populace is living under a politically correct form of a totalitarian state.
Tue Elung-Jensen over 9 years ago
Oddly enough – that won´t help the inviroment all that much. Especially if it means using paper bags instead. Plastic bags can be made from recyclable plastic, or bio degradable plastic (surprise, it isn´t all a waste product these days). So inform people better of these things.
Dtroutma over 9 years ago
I’ve long recycled plastic bags to pick up dog poop, collect veggies from my own garden, and other secondary uses, but yes, the disregard of most folks has made them extremely hazardous in the environment. This could be in part rectified by making their production from biodegradable “plastics” mandatory, as this would even reduce the problem from those used to pick up that pooh, or other organic garbage.
But, if you want the REALLY DISGUSTING plastic menace; “disposable” diapers. It was only a short while after there appearance that they became thicker than falling leaves alongside many of our roads and highways as traveling mommies and daddies found them “so convenient”.
SClark55 Premium Member over 9 years ago
Am I the only one who remembers those plastic bags were good cuz they’re made of recyclable materials? If these people are going to change their minds every 20 years, why bother?.If the problem is, animals get snagged in the handles, why not leave the handles off? redesign the bag?
luvdafuneez over 9 years ago
I never hear see or hear any mention of banning the plastic bags in the produce section of every supermarket (including Whole Foods)…you can pick up after your dog with those, too.
Mneedle over 9 years ago
The reason for that is simple. The problem is nowhere as large as the control freak liberals want it to appear.
Dtroutma over 9 years ago
BTW: have used cloth bags for decades, and a lot of stores will now provide you with free cloth bags for wine as well. A note: part of the complaint from the plastics industry is that cloth bags are unsanitary: it’s called a washing machine, and works quite well to disinfect them, epecially after packing meat in them.
Also, though Woodsie isn’t seen too often any more, the last grizzly in California was killed in 1921, they were common throughout the state when the “49’ers” came for the gold, didn’t take long for panicky easterners to come west an wipe them out, because they were “scary”- so maybe the idiotic fears of cougars (20 something total human fatalities, nation-wide, in historic record) or wolves (one proven human fatality in the history of the U.S. and that was in Alaska), isn’t something new? Yes, bears have killed more folks, something over 50, but most of those folks were being idiots, like trying to shoot them with “pop-guns” of low caliber, and just making them mad.
rossevrymn over 9 years ago
I reuse my plastic bags for house garbage bags and doggy poop. Can’t do that with paper.