CA Plastic Bag Ban
brianlux
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California passed a bill to ban the plastic bag and now millions of dollars are being pumped into efforts to repeal the plastic-bag ban. I can totally understand this. I mean, really, who wants to go to all that trouble to have to carry those burdensome cloth bags around? And really, aren't the oceans even more beautiful with all that colorful plastic floating around on it? As for those turtles and fish and sea birds that choke on the bags, well hey, man-up critters, it's Darwinism at it's best. Survive the plastic or adios amigos!
http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Millions-poured-into-effort-to-bag-the-5895777.php
http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Millions-poured-into-effort-to-bag-the-5895777.php
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The three local markets I frequent haven't offered plastic since it was banned, although one of them now has recycled/recyclable ones. We've done fine with paper so far.
Still (and I've said it before), our condo rules require trash to be in plastic bags. So, we go through a fair amount of them on a weekly basis.
Even Steven?
What gets me is here in coastal South Florida our Eco system is the life blood of everything.You can't harm the Mangrove plants,Lights have to be controlled by the beaches due to our huge Sea Turtle population and Boating rules protect the endangered manatees.You would think some pin head would decide to do a bag ban here,but nothing yet.Sometimes we are so far behind common sense legislation it's disturbing.(like medical Mary Jane). Good for Cali
http://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/translating-uncle-sam/stories/what-is-the-great-pacific-ocean-garbage-patch
Sort of fits here.
(and I miss George)
Only ironic thing is putting your 5000 plastic items in your canvas bag.
I ordered some stuff from Amazon recently. One of them was an incense holder, no larger than 2 x 12 inches. The thing came in a box four times its size and stuffed with "puffed" plastic.
Our cats love it, but what a waste.
I always cut myself on that shit.I hate that form of packaging.
In fact the disposal company is very aggressive in collecting our plastic bags and encourages that we put our paper in plastic bags for curbside collection. Many of our grocery stores have a bin for collecting plastic shopping bags.
Our waste facility offers free tours and shows how garbage is sorted and recycled.
Any plastic shopping bag that arrives at the facility is recycled (including the black garbage bag)
If we don't separate our plastics/paper compost properly we get a rejection sticker on collection day and it is left at our curb until you resort it for next collection day (2 wks later).
And PJFan, that sounds like a pretty good system. I like the concept of touring facilities, too.
Recycling as much as we can is great and it's easy and I'm all for it- I'm kind of a fanatic about doing it in fact. But more important is understanding that around August of each year, we humans have used what the earth can provide one year- recycled or otherwise- and that the other 4 months of what we consume in resources comes out of what we won't have down the road.
The ban on plastic bags also comes under the heading of "important but relatively minor steps in the right direction". Let's do it, and then go way beyond that in conservation efforts.
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I believe Hawaii has been doing this for years.
Australia too.
Nice!
It's an odd debate to have. On one hand you have the oceans, etc being affected by plastic bags. On the other hand you have people that really don't give a shit if a plastic bag is available or not for their use.
Whoa- Huh? Run that by me again? Am I sleep deprived and missing something here or just dumb? (Maybe just happy?)
Totally agree, tng.
Besides commenting more on good news, maybe we can do things to create good news as well.