it takes SEVEN TRUCKS to deliver the same amount of paper bags that ONE truck can carry of plastic it takes SEVEN TRUCKS to deliver the same amount of paper bags that ONE truck can carry of plasticExactly. And how many trucks does it take to deliver food all over our nation? If these hippies in Madistan are TRULY into Saving the Earth, they’d adopt the “100 Mile Rule” and not eat anything that is trucked in from further away than that. And they’d support LOCAL farmers and marketers exclusively, of which we have hundreds. And they could learn to bake their own bread. Or chop a head of lettuce versus a packaged bag of already chopped.
Fer Pete’s Sake! Look at the PACKAGING that foodstuffs already come in. Look in the average cart and see how much packaging waste there is, then tell me that banning a few plastic carrying bags makes one bit of difference in the long run.
My problem lies with a Federal Ban on ANYTHING. Let the Free Market (consumers) decide and let business owners decide. The hippies and the local Geen Dictocrats need to shut up and quit being a bunch of hypocrites, telling the REST of us how to live, when your average schmuck like me lives more lightly than they could ever DREAM of living.