New Plastic Shopping Bag Site
Here's a new web site for those caught up in the plastic bag ban hysteria. Nicely done, I thought. Their Discover The Cure page has some interesting info on plastic bags.
The first thing to catch my attention is they say plastic shopping bags are made with natural gas- suggesting they're not made with oil as we've been led to believe. Hmmm??? How can that be?
Second, while plastic bags are recyclable, don't be putting them in your recycling bin with the other plastics as they suggest. They aren't supposed to be in there, unless things have changed with the Willits company taking over our local recycling. Just drop them in the recycling bin at the supermarket.
Labels: plastic bag bans
posted by Fred Mangels @ 10:43 AM
7 comments
7 Comments:
That would be great if they all were recycled. I’m tired of seeing them stuck in trees, fences, gutters and at the beach. They are like cigarette butts littering the world and never going away. Time to ban them.
And by the time you're done banning everything that makes an occasional mess, nobody will have a job.
"occasional" mess! ha! that's a good one.
Yep, although what I meant is that only some plastic bags end up as litter. By the banners' own admission, the vast majority of plastic shopping bags end up recycled or in landfills. Thus their usual talking point of how many bags end up "filling up our landfills". Never mind how little space those bags take up.
Plastic shopping bags don't seem to be anywhere near the litter problem now that they used to be, from my own observations.
I don't know where you observe these things Fred, but it's worse. You just don't get it and you never will.
No anon, its you who lacks critical thinking skills. Look up the facts. Its a bigger world than that which you live in.
Fred....Fred....I will remind you that I don't approve of a ban on bags only because I hate banning anything. I do think people need to realize there are far better options and keeping people employed is NOT a good reason to keep making unnecessary products. There are plenty of nearly unavoidable bag-type containers that I use for garbage and the little bags the T/S is delivered in is better for doggy poo...
I'd love to see who's backing this BagAnxiety site. If not the petroleum corporations then just people who refuse to stop using and, in spite of their defiant stance, really DO feel guilty or they wouldn't try and justify it.
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