A very few years ago the regressives wanted everybody to use plastic instead of paper bags in order to save the trees. Trees are all saved now?
I’d say the regressives need to make up their minds, but there’s not much there to work with.
I guess years ago tree farms were unheard of... but paper does compost well.
I remember - but thought it was nuts as paper is a renewable resource (we can plant more trees), and much more environmentally friendly (decompose better).
But the libtards NEVER consider "unintended consequences" because they want their feelings addressed NOW.
They are never happy when they get what they asked for. So now the answer to any liberal's request for anything should be: "NO"
Years ago, at the dawn of the environmental movement, there was a scholarly journal with the title "Garbage" (no kidding). It published scientific studies of the things that end up in landfills. Very interesting mag. But because the real science contradicted the eco-politically-correct memes, it didn't last long.
They published a study laying out the ecological impacts of both paper and plastic grocery bags. Not surprisingly, the plastic bags had a far lower eco-footprint than paper. So the eco-nutcases had to invent the garbage equivalent of "thinning eagle egg shells" of plastic bags strangling wildlife and being eaten by sea-turtles to justify their attempts to ban them.
You are exactly right. Back in the early 70s they got the grocery stores to stop using paper bags and to switch to plastic. Started with offering customers a choice. Remember clerks asking “paper or plastic”. If you chose paper you were looked down on. Then they started charging you a nickel for each paper bag. Now you can’t get anything but plastic. And those plastic bags are everywhere. Go up on the Blue Ridge mountains and ya see that trash up in the trees.
Save the Trees bull crap.
A friend of mine runs a small paper plant that makes grocery bags - a few years ago they almost went out of business - now with the plastic bag ban spreading, he can’t keep up with the new business.
Leftists contradict themselves so constantly, they are not worth listening to at all.