Is This Shopping Bag More
‘Eco Friendly’ Than Plastic?
Only If It’s Used 20,000 Times
Issues & Insights,
by
The Editorial Board
Original Article
Posted By: RockyTCB,
6/20/2019 11:32:32 AM
Plastic is the eco-activists’ favored demon of the moment. Policymakers can’t get enough of banning plastic consumer items. But the bans are worse than useless. They are counterproductive.
California leads the world in virtue signaling, having outlawed single-use plastics bags, as well as plastic straws. Plastic bottles of shampoo, conditioner, and soap handed out by hotels might be the next items prohibited under California law, if lawmakers don’t ban plastics utensils first. Other states have rushed to enact bans, including Vermont, New York, and Hawaii (which has a de facto statewide ban due to multiple county bans). More cities than can be easily counted have either already
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Northcross 6/20/2019 11:50:16 AM (No. 102351)
Stop confusing the issue with actual facts.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
earlybird 6/20/2019 11:51:44 AM (No. 102354)
This is an excellent article. For years we relied on the reuse of the ubiquitous market "T-shirt bags” for lining wastebaskets and any other purpose where a (free) plastic bag could do the job.
Re the sturdier carry bags now pushed for 99 cents by markets and others that cost more: The ultra-liberal Los Angeles Times did a little feature a few years ago in which it reviewed and compared about six of these. The main thing they found out was that all were produced in China, as opposed to the T-shirt bags which were produced in California. They also found out that these - if not kept scrupulously clean - carried food-borne disease. There were more minuses than pluses, the country of origin and their unsanitary nature being the main ones.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Old Army Vet 6/20/2019 11:54:06 AM (No. 102356)
I'm shocked that anyone would not take the word of an environmentalist I mean, how could this be??? They are expert in their fields, thoughts, motivation and reliability of facts. I just don't see how this could be true. (Tongue out of cheek)
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Daisymay 6/20/2019 11:55:37 AM (No. 102358)
I've hated plastic grocery bags since the day they started forcing us to use them. I love my fabric bags and I use them every time I go grocery shopping. Yes, I do wash them! They are easier for me to handle and the Insulated one is so handy for the frozen stuff since I live in Florida where Ice Cream will melt even though I live seven minutes from the Store! Maybe the Old Brown Paper Bags will make another appearance. Who knows!
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Chuzzles 6/20/2019 12:01:41 PM (No. 102364)
Considering it was the environmentalists who got us into the plastic bags in the first place to save the trees, I find these bans highly hypocritical. Amazon offers some great reusable shopping bags in multi-packs that are also machine washable so food doesn't get contaminated with fresh meat juices.
Most of the bags that the stores push are just not easily sanitized like they need to be. So along with the mercury in the curly fries light bulbs, it looks like we are being set up as a nation for some serious filthy bag/food borne illnesses, all courtesy of the numpty heads of the environmental movement.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
zoidberg 6/20/2019 1:35:29 PM (No. 102442)
Reusable grocery bags have been responsible for at least one outbreak of norovirus.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
jeffkinnh 6/20/2019 1:47:20 PM (No. 102455)
It seems to me that when dealing with virtue signalling issues we are continually chasing our tails. Since these are emotionally driven issues, constructed specifically to an emotional appeal, there is also a sense of FIX IT NOW. The problem is, the urgent, rushed response never seems to be the good response. In fact, maybe we find that, after due consideration, the issue itself was bogus. In this case the cheap plastic grocery bag may be the best possible solution. Further, in another article by Lomborg, he points out that the majority of the plastic waste in the ocean comes from the fishing industry. Also, most of the remaining plastic trash comes from China, Indonesia, Philippines and Vietnam. So, in Indiana, Grandma Smith's using plastic grocery bags means just about NOTHING.
So what was all the panic about?
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
hershey 6/20/2019 3:08:22 PM (No. 102529)
Sooner or later, each family will have one cast iron pot and wooden spoons for cooking and eating, kinda like the old days living in 'soddies' on the plains......Kalifornia needs to just slide into the ocean and be done with it...
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
hershey 6/20/2019 3:11:37 PM (No. 102530)
Number 7 your thoughts and explanation hold for EVERYTHING the lefty envirowackos and gun controllers want to ban..Every. Dang. Thing...
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Clinger 6/20/2019 3:14:47 PM (No. 102533)
Just like my neighbor who cuts his grass with a coal powered lawnmower but since he is unaware he feels all good about it.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
DVC 6/20/2019 3:15:29 PM (No. 102534)
I stopped at a convenience store in Colorado last week and got a soft drink.
I failed to notice that the straw was paper.
Within about 3 minutes the plastic lid had squashed the straw to where it was useless.
Eco or green means "more expensive and work badly, if it works at all.
Damned "green" idiots.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
LadyHen 6/20/2019 3:16:19 PM (No. 102535)
I can't remember where I saw it or who said it but: California, where your face, butt, and boobs can be plastic but your grocery bags can't. Gotta love it.
Oh and btw, I learned a new interesting factoid lately. Plastic straws make up less than 1% of the Pacific Ocean floating trash pile we always hear about. Commercial fishing gear however makes up anywhere from 40-70% depending on the source you read.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
MickTurn 6/20/2019 6:57:57 PM (No. 102724)
My wife bought a few of those new cloth bags...they lasted about 15 times at the store...a pure ripoff!
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Millennials are too young to remember why we switched to plastic in the first place. Anybody replace the forest needed to make paper straws ?
I like plastic bags and recycle them to change the litter box and take my garbage out-recycling them. Don't put the plastic guy out of business.
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