Posted on 05/02/2019 6:03:46 AM PDT by Right Wing Assault
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Wait a minute. Climate freaks have been asking for ways to sequester carbon. Burying it does the job.
I asked a climate fanatic I know, "Isn't burying plastic bags good since it sequesters carbon a good thing?" Answer, "Uh, that's a good question."
The suburbs of Cleveland, in and out of Cuyahoga County, have sustained the region. The county and the City of Cleveland overall are corrupt cesspools.
I am moving back to the region one day to retire (insert snark here), but will never buy in the county despite many, many great suburban cities. That makes me and Mrs. Birdman sad.
Makes me want to drive up there and start handing out plastic bags with Chief Wahoo’s picture on them.
Basically right half of the Bell Curve Democrats punishing in an obtuse fashion Democrats on the left half of the Bell Curve.
No true conservative would seek to divide the D party it is not who we are.
All of my plastic bags are multiple use. Small trash can liners, dog cleanup, recycled at store, collecting cleanup rags and paper towels, storing brass, lots of second uses.
I don’t know about anyone else, but most of the plastic bags I get are from the grocery store. They become kitchen garbage bags for the little bin that hangs off the under-sink cabinet door. If I didn’t get these, I would have to buy special-purpose plastic bags for the purpose. How does that make anything better?
What is their goal here? It’s not like the sea of plastic in the ocean is coming from Ohio (or much of it from on-land garbage in north America in general). We’re not China or India, we don’t have tons of plastic garbage dumped in our rivers to float out to sea. The one major problem I see with plastic bags is that they become an eyesore when they are discarded carelessly or get away, ending up stuck in trees, bushes, fences, etc.
Yet, wrapping up biodegradable pet poo in plastic is ok.
BTW, all, I forgot to add this: In NYS, WIC and SNAP recipients are exempted from paying the paper bag tax.
If it is a “countrywide ban” doesn’t it apply to all states?
Ah, well, of course they are exempt. They don’t have to pay for anything.
Nobody’s that stupid.
For well over a dozen years, single use plastic bags have been required to be manufactured with plastic that has about 10% starch in it. Once exposed to weather, bacteria and sunlight the starch breaks down quickly and the plastic particles left are dispersed. The plastic is then subject to UV degradation and breaks down even further. Why do you think grocery bags that are over 6 months old rip and split so easily?
*** This is a problem that does not need a solution ***, especially a stupid solution like that foisted on society by liberals that have not examined the problem, but who want to feel good about themselves.
“Yet, wrapping up biodegradable pet poo in plastic is ok.”
For well over a dozen years, single use plastic bags have been required to be manufactured with plastic that has about 10% starch in it. Once exposed to weather, bacteria and sunlight, the starch breaks down quickly and the plastic particles left are dispersed. The plastic is then subject to UV degradation and breaks down even further. Why do you think grocery bags that are over 6 months old rip and split so easily?
Biodegradable pet poo is a perfect application for biodegradable single use plastic bags.
These fools passed the law requiring the starch additive, now they’ve forgotten what they legislated and want to legislate some more.
IF I take a bunch of my new kitchen trash bags INTO the store when I shop & put my purchases into those bags-—then what?
...my city is gone!...
It's countywide.
“Single use” my ass.
First they banned perfectly good paper sacks. A renewable resource (pulpwood). (No Susie, they aren’t logging the Sequoia to make grocery bags.)
In their stead, everyone was forced to use these plastic sacks. But they are always and ever referred to as “single use”, most people use them for all kinds of things. It’s amazing how often government “solves” the problems they created un-necessarily in the first place. Job security I guess.
Consensus is another word for lack of leadership.
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