All the supermarkets switched to plastic bags because the green fascists complained that paper bags were a waste of trees. Now we’re back to paper bags. Until they ban those too. Our liberal elite won’t be happy until we’re carrying our groceries home in our bare hands. On the bus. Running at 4 mph on solar panels.
You're too kind - I think their ultimate plan is for us (especially we on the right) to not have any groceries at all.
At the time I pictured the inevitable "bags that got away" snarled on fences, bushes, and trees. It was obvious that the enviro-Mentals weren't opposed to litter, they just wanted more of it. All necessary to create perpetual outrage and victimhood.
And who didn't *recycle* paper bags? It just made sense. They were good for a zillion kids' craft projects (if not used at home the schools gladly took them), wrapping packages for mailing, mulch for under the bark mulch, etc. Plus, I didn't need a *plastic* bin or cardboard box in my trunk to get the groceries home undamaged.
Now the greenies want everyone to use the icky quasi-reuseable bacteria-magnet green "cloth" bags with the recycling logo, so they can all show how much they care. The green bags do function like ID badges though, so they aren't a total waste. :)
Reminds me of the time I had the misfortune of living next door to a hardcore greenie. He had the rattiest yard on the block and generated an enormous amount of trash. Impossible not to notice because the overloaded cans would predictably fall over into the street, and that was on a good day when dogs didn't scatter the mess.