Posted on 03/20/2013 9:21:36 PM PDT by mom of young patriots
“I am disgusted to be mistaken for a politically correct environmentalist and the string bag is a magnet for that kind of assumption”Walmart bags. Whenever I'm gonna be around libtards, I haul out the Walmart reusable bags -- makes 'em froth at the mouth.
We have bags from Hagerty Custom Car Insurance so the envirowenies know we burn lots of gasoline in the hot rods!!
There is another bit of data that we won’t be able to collect for a while. What happens when those so called green bags become as plentiful as klenex? I wonder if the liberals will like the look of those decorating the trees any better.
I often wonder if the liberals use their tote bags to clean up after their dogs. If not, what the heck do they use?
I like the one-hand pooper scooper, myself. ;-)
I have said for years when asked “paper or plastic?” that I didn’t care. Recently I have learned that my response meant that I was “bi-sack-ual”!
Who knew? :)snort)))))
Hasn’t it been settled that plastic bags are better to use because you can recycle plastic bags, evidenced by recycle bins at the entrance to some of the stores, as opposed to using porus fabric bags which introduce well-ducumented problems concerning the spread of bacteria? After all, cleaning fabrics takes energy, a carbon footprint problem according to liberals, and pollutes the environment with detergent.
Mea culpa. Recycling plastic bags must also take energy.
Good point.
In this article, recycling as the environmental savior of mother earth is debunked.
http://www.cato.org/publications/commentary/our-widespread-faith-recycling-is-misplaced
Thanks for that link mom.
While the article makes good points about recycling not being economical, my concern is that plastic is not biodegradable, corrections wecome. So if we continue to simply bury plastic bags then one of these days it can probably be argued that the earth is made out of plastic. (a little bit of sarcasm here)
Hmm. Yes, your point is well taken. If we were on a planet the size of the Moon, I’d be more concerned. There is probably some balance of recycling and disposal that will keep reasonable people happy. We’ve got centuries, maybe millennia before we reach that critical mass of plastic. Technology will change a lot in that time. Plastic might even naturally phase out in favor of some newer innovation. A government meddling to the degree Austin has is unnecessary and opportunistic.
The plastic bags we use at our store say that they decompose in sunlight.
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