Posted on 01/01/2019 11:46:27 AM PST by DoodleBob
So when do they ban plastic zip lock bags? I’d wager those types of bags are much worse.
The what about kitchen or lawn plastic trash bags?
How about the millions of small plastic containers used by HEB to package their overpriced prepared foods.
What about the plastic bags your bread comes in?
I thought Lowell died and went to hell when the mills all moved south to breathe free air
I just bring a kangaroo with me to the grocery store.
“Just put the groceries in the pouch. Just hand her the ice cream, though.”
You’ll be arrested for animal cruelty...unless Kanga entered the country illegally, which is, of course, perfectly fine and your plan will work flawlessly.
If providing jobs to down-on-their-luck kangaroos is wrong, then I don’t wanna be right.
We do the same thing.
I also sew. Made a bunch of bags out upholstery fabric. Gave them out as Christmas present one year.
I used to bring in hobos to put my groceries in, but Bob the hobo seemed to be enjoying it too much.
I read they are now making condoms out of paper too as the plastic ones get thrown all over. So now you have to ask your date is she wants paper or plastic.
All those dirty used bags being hauled back into the store that have been with the dog in the back of the suv are just great. Nothing like virtue signaling until they get somebody sick.
The problem is people, not the bags. Near my supermarket, you can see plastic bags floating in the air and hanging from trees, blown about by the wind. The problem is people who let the bags go and don’t dispose of them properly.
After this ban goes into effect, they will be targeting something else. They are never satisfied. There’s always something else that’s demonized.
Straws. Bags. Cup lids. Plastic water bottles. Single use anything. Give them time, they’ll ban it.
Just what I want to see are the dirty, filthy reusable bags being dragged across the check stand contaminating it with God knows what.
I have seen very few clean reusable bags. Most of what I see are stained and soiled. Yuck!!
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>> “After this ban goes into effect, they will be targeting something else.” <<
Soda straws!
By my own choice, I have a bunch of Trader Joe’s canvas bags and totes in the car and love to use them. But that’s just it — it’s my own choice. I also recycle bread bags and other plastic bags I get that aren’t used for trash.
.....I read they are now making condoms out of paper too as the plastic ones get thrown all over. So now you have to ask your date is she wants paper or plastic.......
Oh that’s too funny. Don Rickels?
They may start out with decent bags. Then they will get cheaper and cheaper. Always happens.
Esta mierda otra vez? I hope everyone there goes to another town to get groceries-that will put the plastic bags back at the checkout counter...
Paper bags are definitely an inconvenience when you live in a rural area on acreage with a garage/carport some distance from your house, making a long carry for hauling groceries from truck to house-the bags don’t hold as much weight as plastic ones, they fall apart in rain and rip when you try to carry the same number of them as you would plastic bags. I have some cloth bags-I use them for non-grocery items like skin care and bath products-they are botulism factories if you use them for groceries-you can’t wash them in hot water and bleach-they fall apart...
I use plastic grocery bags for daily cleaning of my cat’s litter box, as liners for small trash cans, emptying the vacuum cleaner-lots of ways to recycle/reuse them.
There are paper, reusable cloth and plastic bags offered at the only real grocery store out here-everyone asks for plastic ones-that grocery caters to natural living folks-which is most of us-by stocking organic local produce, grass fed/free range meat, etc as well as organic packaged brands like Bob’s Red Mill, Hain, Free Trade, natural skin care stuff-and they still hand out plastic bags, because they understand customers want them-oh the horror...
You may be old enough to remember how they howled about killing the rain forests to make paper bags (As if old growth tropical hardwood forests were being clear-cut for the pulp mills) when they were all about saving the trees and demanded an end to paper grocery bags.
But the problem with plastic bags is : where do they go when you are finished with them? You put them in the trash and once a week or so someone comes around and collects them, along with the rest of the trash wrapped in plastic, and takes it all away.
To where?
They may be filling up the canyons and valleys around where you live. I live on an island. There's no room to put it.
Where I live, we are required to pick up our dog poop. Small plastic bags are provided for the purpose. To keep the town neat and tidy, we pick up the poop, seal it in a plastic bag and drop in in a handy trash receptacle(lined with a plastic bag). It is then collected and taken to the baler facility where it is crushed into bales with the rest of the trash and shipped to Seattle.
Yes. We seal our dog poop in plastic bags and ship it to Seattle.
What do they do with it in Seattle? Who cares? It's gone from here.
The answer is, as far as I can tell from sailing back and forth between here and Hawaii a few times, it goes in the ocean.
To me, and I could be wrong about this, it's insane.
Plastic trash is a real problem with more than 8 billion people on the planet. At least paper bags decompose over time. < / rant >
Well, maybe tomorrow they will.”
Not to worry, our “Muslim Friends” can show you a “new method” for “bathroom hygiene! It works acceptably, unless you are a paraplegic.
This is simply the left EXERTING CONTROL over people. No different than when force girls and women to allow perverts in bathrooms and showers, and label you as HATE-FILLED if you have a problem with it.
It’s not about bags. It’s never about the issue. It’s about CONTROL!
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