ZERO will put a stop to it.
It makes sense in that the bags are made from petroleum in the first place. On the other hand, it doesn’t make sense in that a good percentage of these bags are used multiple times now. We save and reuse every one we bring home for something. I’ve used them as landscape barrier, garden produce bags, lined pots for planting, trash can liner, dirty clothes bags, gym bag, lunch bag, recycling bag, carry bags for Christmas presents, a rain hat (long story), dry bag for camping, fish “creel”, a portalet (another long story), tailgating. That’s what I can think of in recent months. We have an elastic tube thingy we stuff them in the top and then you pull one out the bottom. If we didn’t have these as a resource, we would likely buy a box of news ones.
In short, there is probably lower hanging fruit in the alternative fuels category.
The problem seems to be that the mass of those bags is spread out thinly over a huge area, difficult to access/collect. What can be done about that (and still keep the recycling concept economically viable)?
I live right on the edge of Austin city limits and we no longer shop in Austin because of the bag ban. Toting your own bags to go shopping is idiotic.
Burn them when you burn your old car tires.
My wife and I use the same bag over and over again. We’re probably way more green than the lunatics that believe in the Global Warming/Climate Change/Disruptification Scam.
I cringe whenever I see the word “environmentalist”. I think of Socialists carrying signs, wanting to steal our freedoms, and believing that fire will come out of their water faucets if we take natural gas out of the ground.
We have an epidemic of stink bugs in Maryland. Whenever you open your door, one or more fly in. If you smash them, it stinks up the house. So when I see one inside the house, I put a plastic bag over my hand, pick up the bug, and tie it into the bag to suffocate in the trash can. No smell! The long bags that hold the newspaper delivery are ideal.
And give up my free trash bags?