"Eventually your shopping trips will be limited to what you can carry in your arms."
...or on your head.
Posted on 02/12/2024 4:38:37 PM PST by Ronaldus Magnus III
I started saving all my plastic bags as soon as I heard that the Dems were going to ban them. I always have a nice supply of them in the car and throw them in the shopping cart going into the store. When I unload these bags at home, I store them for another trip to the store. AS they wear out or get contaminated, I store them in another bag for recycling. We have a plastic recycler that takes Styrofoam, shipping bags, bread bags, plastic bottles, shopping bags and produce bags. At our municipal recycler, I take plastic milk jugs, paper, magazines, books, plastic product containers marked #1 and #2 inside the diamond, metal cans, metal waste (old BBQs—etc), glass, burned out fluorescent light tubes, refrigerators, stoves, appliances, and aluminum. I compost my food waste. Things like kitty liter go into the garbage can. Trips to the garbage transfer station are rare.
I probably should have gave the attribution
Iron Eyes Cody (born Espera Oscar de Corti, April 3, 1904 – January 4, 1999)
"reusable" bags are made from a material known as HDPE, which is thicker and heavier than the LDPE plastic bags of yore. And although both materials can be recycled — and in commercial and agricultural settings often are recycled — they are generally not in residential and consumer settings, Murray said. - https://news.yahoo.com/californias-war-plastic-bag-seems-110054347.html
Another study published this month by Freedonia Custom Research, a division of Marketresearch.com, began making headlines last week. The study says that although total bag volume declined in New Jersey by over 60% after the implementation of the ban in 2022, the shift to alternative bags resulted in a three-times increase in plastic consumption for bags.
The main issue with plastic bag bans that was identified in the Freedonia study is the shift from single-use plastic bags to alternatives that are mostly made with non-woven polypropylene, a material that is not widely recycled in the United States. According to the publication, the increased consumption of polypropylene bags contributed to a 500% increase in greenhouse gas emissions compared with the numbers from 2015. Additionally, the study says non-woven polypropylene consumes over 15 times more plastic and generates more than five times the amount of emissions per bag of polyethylene plastic bags. The study was commissioned by the American Recyclable Plastic Bag Alliance, an organization that advocates against plastic bag bans - https://www.northjersey.com/story/news/environment/2024/01/30/nj-plastic-bag-ban-effectiveness-studies/72364541007/he U.S. recycled less than 9% of plastic material in 2018. With roughly 102.1 billion plastic bags used yearly by Americans, that means 92.81 billion plastic bags are not recycled per year.
Plastic bags can’t be sorted from other materials by the machinery at recycling facilities. They often get stuck in conveyor belts, jam equipment and delay the entire sorting system, making it impractical for plastic bags to be collected with curbside recycling. .. A 2018 study by the Ministry of Environment and Food of Denmark showed that the manufacturing and disposal of plastic bags had a lower environmental impact than six alternate bags offered as a replacement at most supermarkets. It stated that each alternate material would have to be reused between 35 and 7,100 times to negate the pollution of its production and to equal that of a plastic bag that has only been used one time.
a joint study at the University of Arizona and Loma Linda University in California discovered the presence of coliform bacteria in 51% of the 84 reusable grocery bags tested, with E. coli present in 8%.- https://www.dumpsters.com/blog/plastic-bag-bans
Iron Eyes Cody. Born Espera Oscar de Corti, Iron Eyes Cody built a career off portraying Native characters in Hollywood Westerns and also presented himself as Native in his real life.
My grandmother and her brother were half Sioux Indian. When I first met my wife, I told her about my Uncle Gibert's wedding picture. He got married on a horse wearing a full headdress with his bride standing next to him in a buckskin squaw outfit. She thought that I was joking and would not believe me. When we were visiting my parents, she was looking through a photo album with my mom. They came across the wedding pictures and my wife to be, had completely forgotten that I had already told her about them.
She had long very dark hair. I told her we still had the headdress and my parents still had a bunch of horses. I told her if we got married that it was a family tradition and that we would have to find a buckskin dress for her. She didn't like the idea.
If one wants to see litter and environmental destruction visit a Injun reservation, OR the native Hawaiian homelands.
How much you want to bet the picture with all the garbage in it is on TRIBAL LANDS.
If you have ever been on TRIBAL LANDS you will know what I mean!
One of our grocery stores here in our thriving metropolitan area (population 1124 people) offers those heavy duty plastic grocery bags.
They are pure gold here on the farm and have hundreds of uses.
Anybody who just throws them away must be way richer than me.
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