News Jul 28, 2011 at 4:00 am

Plastic Defenders

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1
All the plastic bags I've used of the past 10 years fits in a space 1 ft by 1 ft.

Whereas all the plastic shit surrounding the products I buy use up a full garbage can every two weeks. That type of plastic can't be scrunched down to a smaller size, serves little purpose, and pollutes FAR more than a grocery bag, which can live a life well beyond it's single use.

Priorities, people...
2
You can easily get rid of both kinds of plastic - where does it say we have to get rid of only one thing at once?
3
You can recycle those bags at any New Seasons, and what #1 said.
4
at many stores, the question isn't "paper or plastic", it's "did you bring your own bag?" and when that becomes the assumption, we won't be worry about either paper or plastic, neither which is a good option.

byob. it works for parties. it works for shopping.
5
Awesome. Let's kill more trees!
6
It is absolutely ridiculous that this city is banning these. They are reusable and recyclable. Yes the are recyclable. No your curbside recycling won't take them, but there are place you can take them to recycle them. Instead of banning, the city should start requiring curbside recycling companies to accept them and recycle them.
I reuse them for my bathroom garbage. So now, instead of reusing a bag for this, I have to specifically go buy plastic garbage bags. How is this helping in any way?
7
This is sure a thought-provoking issue.

In my research, I found out that greenhouse gas implicated in global warming is composed primarily of CO2, but second, of methane -- which is released by paper bag decomposition in landfills. And, there is not a lot of methane as you might think in the average human fart, although cows produce a lot more, based on a careful Argentinian study (http://tinyurl.com/6pzntt). Therefore, dairy and meat should be carried in a plastic bag, when consumed, as an offset.
8
there is a huge dead zone in the middle of the pacific ocean full of these bags, clearly all of them haven't been reused or recycled.

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