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To: Stoat

I use my own bags a lot. I don’t use bottled water most of the time. I have a water filter squeeze bottle and two Culligan jugs I can refill at Walmart. I also compost. However, there’s no recycling where I live so I try to buy more glass than plastic. I think a person can be smart about green living. People don’t like to be TOLD what to do.

Besides, the plastic bags are recycled as liners for my juice machine then I use that same bag to clean out the catbox, never in reverse ;o) I usually pick extra plastic bags out of the plastic bag recycling bin at Walmart.


33 posted on 05/04/2008 5:56:19 PM PDT by cyborg (Living strong for my mother and my residents since March 12,2008)
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To: cyborg
I use my own bags a lot.

And I'm guessing that you do so because you want to, not because you're being forced into that behavior by an overreaching Socialist government.

 I don’t use bottled water most of the time. I have a water filter squeeze bottle and two Culligan jugs I can refill at Walmart. I also compost. However, there’s no recycling where I live so I try to buy more glass than plastic. I think a person can be smart about green living. People don’t like to be TOLD what to do.

And they shouldn't be forced into unnatural behaviors by punitive taxation.  This is merely social engineering....if they truly had factual, scientific evidence that plastic bags were harming the world they should document it and present it as a factual, scientific proposal....not a guilt-laden religious ethic as so much of environmental legislation is.  Sadly for them, they have no scientific evidence, so they prey upon the public with the Left's favorite weapon, Guilt.

Series of blunders turned the plastic bag into global villain (Enviros misread() report)

Besides, the plastic bags are recycled as liners for my juice machine then I use that same bag to clean out the catbox, never in reverse ;o)

An excellent plan  :-)  I use them as wastebasket liners at the stoat cave.  If they go through with this and start adding this tax, not only will I shop outside of the city limits out of pure spite, but I will buy PLASTIC wastebasket liners as will many other people, and so the net reduction of plastic bags in the landfill will be zero.  It's irrelevant because the type of plastic used in thise bags breaks down after a very few years anyway.

I usually pick extra plastic bags out of the plastic bag recycling bin at Walmart.

Be sure to clean your hands.

ABC News Shopping Carts More Germy Than Public Restrooms

Grocery store shopping cart handles have more germs than public restrooms, making them one of the worst public places for germs, according to researchers.

If the handles of shopping carts are that bad, one might assume that the handles of used plastic shopping bags are just as bad or worse.

88 posted on 05/04/2008 10:29:16 PM PDT by Stoat (Rice / Coulter 2012: Smart Ladies for a Strong America)
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Remnents from juicing make good fodder for the compost pile. Why would you chuck it out with the cat poo?


96 posted on 05/05/2008 4:40:46 AM PDT by Scarpetta (e pluribus victim)
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