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Am I the only one who remembers we were supposed to request/use plastic bags in order to save trees?

Since then, we made it a practice to request paper bags when were supposed to save non-threatened trees. Now, when asked “paper or plastic”, I say “whatever you want.”

Personally, the plastic bags are a pain for groceries (which tend to fall out and get lost under a car seat or in a corner of the trunk) and fine for everything else. They also come in handy for packing wet swim gear in the summer.

How much proof do the idiots need that is just about control?/rhetorical question

I sail model sailboats. One day one sunk. We “sailed” a string across the pond and hooked it to a rope with a grappling hook on the end and began moving the hook back and forth across the pond. Every time the hook came up, it was fouled with plastic bags ... no problem, we took them off and laid them out on the bank of the pond behind us and resumed our deep pond search for the missing sailboat. After a couple of hours we finally hooked the little boat (worth about $800 and worth the effort) and dragged it to the safety of the shore. But the real story was on the bank behind us. We had laid out over 250 plastic bags. A local reporter had a camera and the next thing you know, there was the picture in the paper. I have no moral to this story (except don't chase a goose family with little ones or the big ones will STOMP your boat!). But its curious that people (stores) put their NAMES on these bags ... bags that will last a lifetime in a little pond. Does it hurt the animals, probably not, but you'd think in this age of laws and lawyers, people would rather put their name on a paper bag that “disintegrates” rather than on a plastic bag that “remains” for 100,000 years or so (who knows?). If I was running a company, I'd used paper bags... who knows what retroactive environmental whacko law the libs might come up with to go after deep pockets using the plastic bags as proof? Just food for thought.