Posted on 09/15/2013 10:02:34 AM PDT by Kaslin
Burlap
“Austin TX has the ban too”
That figures. Austin being the repository for a preponderance of liberals and all. Thank goodness I live about 200 miles further north where we don’t hold with all this banning bags nonsense. I re-use my plastic bags for all sorts of things. I’d be lost without them.
I just bought a box from Amazon/ I’m not selling them or anything. Google ‘plastic bags’ and take a look. Come in a box about the size of a ream of paper. I think they say Thank You on them.
Hear, hear, Gaffer! Too true, too true.
How in the hell is it constitutional to ban a plastic bag? Few things (tick) me off more.
They also have no business banning, toilets that flush properly, over the counter asthma inhalers or conventional lightbulbs.
The study I read had a few ways that contamination spreads: meat and poultry leaks in the reusable bags, which then spread bacteria to the bags, and to the conveyor belt of grocery checkout lanes, potentially contaminating thousands of bags which come after. It ‘s a serious problem as virtually no one washes their reusable bags after each use, nor do grocery stores sanitize conveyor belts after each customer.
Viruses get spread the same way, especially in bags that are used for other uses, in addition to groceries. The study I recall had a grocery bag which was used to carry snacks to a girl’s soccer game where one of the girls got sick. That bag carried the live and viable virus load for the next ten days everywhere it went, spreading them everywhere it was placed.
Compare that to a one time use bag, which may suffer the same initial contamination, but is thrown away and removed as a source soon after. From a disease spreading standpoint, re-useable bags are way better.
The study I read had a few ways that contamination spreads: meat and poultry leaks in the reusable bags, which then spread bacteria to the bags, and to the conveyor belt of grocery checkout lanes, potentially contaminating thousands of bags which come after. It ‘s a serious problem as virtually no one washes their reusable bags after each use, nor do grocery stores sanitize conveyor belts after each customer.
Viruses get spread the same way, especially in bags that are used for other uses, in addition to groceries. The study I recall had a grocery bag which was used to carry snacks to a girl’s soccer game where one of the girls got sick. That bag carried the live and viable virus load for the next ten days everywhere it went, spreading them everywhere it was placed.
Compare that to a one time use bag, which may suffer the same initial contamination, but is thrown away and removed as a source soon after. From a disease spreading standpoint, re-useable bags are way more of a problem. .
They also have no business banning huffable solvents.
Thanks I will take a look.
Thanks I will take a look.
Simple solution : bring your own plastic bags left over from other purchases. I try to use them for garbage.
I re-use my plastic bags when I scoop out the litter box and my neighbors use them to pickup after their dogs. I guess we will have to buy bags just like the outlawed bags to take the place of the outlawed bags.
So plastic bags will still exist in the system - they will just cost more and we will also be sharing our brought from home bacteria with each other in the form of ‘reusable’ bags. Do I have that right? How does any of this improve the littering situation? Typical lib ‘think’, isn’t it?
So plastic bags will still exist in the system - they will just cost more and we will also be sharing our brought from home bacteria with each other in the form of 'reusable' bags. Do I have that right? How does any of this improve the littering situation? Typical lib 'think', isn't it?
Meanwhile an actual landfill and polluting threat in this country is just plain ignored. I'm talking about the 18 billion disposable diapers dumped in landfills every year. They aren't biodegradable or they wouldn't work and they also dump feces etc. into the landfill instead of into the sewage system. But you will never hear this sacred cow attacked by the whackos - too many self righteous lib mamas would be inconvenienced by outlawing those.
http://www.sustainer.org/dhm_archive/index.php?display_article=vn321diapersed
Lovely. Add typical.
Simple solution : bring your own plastic bags left over from other purchases. I try to use them for garbage.
Yes, they can be useful.
Might be interesting if they created bags made from hemp and sold them.. they could be souvenirs as well..
There is very little that government cant force businesses to do or to not do.
The whole fuss made over O-care in court was the personal mandate. Notice that no-one challenged the employer mandate in court.
Discrimination laws are another example: like laws that say they cant discriminate against gays.
beisbol
it is all about the beisbol
Injuns losin’ 2 KC and Cards giving up 4 in the 8th
Since this is a thread about bags, which (most) of us would need one for Slimey Virus.
This is what she got dumped for:
It’s like upgrading from a Ford Pinto to a GT40.
This is funny: Cher slaps down Slimey Virus.
“...And, chick, don’t stick out your tongue if it’s coated.”
Keep smoking, you little trash.
Cher???
Haha! She’s a good one to talk...
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