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Originally Posted by 4X4
I apologize for tricking you with that hyperbole. What I should have said is that there is much more plastic in much less useful things, that are just as easy to go after.
As far as bags go, I see no problem with charging a nickle or a dime per bag to reduce use and curb excess, but completely banning them is ridiculous.
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Apology accepted.
If you can come up with reusable yogurt and margarine containers that are as simple to use and maintain as a cotton bag, you will become wealthy beyond imagination. Until such time as this miracle invention exists, I don't think it's such a bad idea to get rid of something that we don't need, like plastic bags.
Since my last post, I went to the grocery store myself. It's something I do often. This time, like usual, I picked up the reusable bag hanging off the coat rack by the door (an action any reasonable person would call "doing nothing), and had my groceries bagged in that.
I paid a dollar for this reusable bag at the grocery store about a year ago. Since then, I would estimate that I have brought home at least 300 plastic-bags-worth of groceries in this one bag. It's a goddamned miracle, I tells ya.
Now granted, I haven't quite yet solved the world's environmental problems with my reusable bag, what I haven't done is brought home 300 plastic bags, by doing
nothing.
Is it a big step? No it isn't.
Is there some amount of selfishness involved? Sure, I don't like 300 plastic bags in my house.
Unlike you, apparently, I don't mind buying a box of garbage bags every six months, so I've solved that problem too, just by buying a box of garbage bags, and bringing them in my reusable shopping bag.
So really what you seem to be saying is doing nothing is too much, and you would prefer to use wasteful plastic bags, instead of doing nothing.