This law should be National - Austin, Texas

[Penn]

A common sense law that will make a difference to environment.

http://www.statesman.com/blogs/conte...b_ref=homepage

[PSM]

Baloney! The enviro-fascists forced plastic bags on us in the '70s to save trees. Whatever bad effect it has is on their effing heads. To hell with them! I'm tired of these freaks getting a voice in my life. And they can screw those curly light bulbs up their asterisks, too.

Pat

[Dusty]

There is an exception. Abortion "doctors" may continue to use one-time bags to transport dead babies to the incinerator.

I lived in that stinking hippie hive one time; lasted about a month.

I stood out like a zit on a virgin's breast.

[Destrier]

So, what will all the plastic bag workers do?

Do we just fire them and add them to a 99 week unemployment list.

Owners of plastic bag companies?

How about people that reuse their purchase bags for garbage bags after getting home? Wont they now have to buy plastic bags to put garbage in... Oh wait, no loss of work for the plastics company or workers and no damn difference to the landfill. wew glad that is solved.

But we will all "feel" allot better seeing others carrying groceries in reusable bags.

Be interesting if the lawmakers would start their mission statements considering end state, second, and third order effects.

Random off topic thought: MRE bags should have one ziplock type end.

Originally Posted by Destrier

So, what will all the plastic bag workers do?

Do we just fire them and add them to a 99 week unemployment list.

Owners of plastic bag companies?

They can convert to manufacturing reusable bags. My wife has been using reusable bags for grocery shopping since the early 80's. We have some that are insulated for frozen and refrigerated items.

[JJ_BPK]

Originally Posted by Penn

A common sense law that will make a difference to environment.

So rather than recycle plastic and wood pulp to create bags..

This common sense law will cause the cost of raw cotton & wool to sky rocket to product environmentally SAFE bags??

Or do we make the bags from IMPORTED Petro chemicals, which will cause the price of gas to go up???

About as stupid as using corn to make fake gas while the cost of taco's goes thru the roof..

Sound legit to me...

[Destrier]

I edited while you posted.


Most folks that reuse their store purchase bags for their garbage bags will now buy garbage bags.

End result, probably no change or minor change to the landfill.

We recycle here. One bin metal cans etc, One bin for paper, one bin for plastics, we use our store bags for garbage. I do not mind using my Alice pack to haul groceries, did in Germany for years from PX to Panzer housing.

What I mind is, the feel good legislation with little real effect to the landfill.

[Dusty]

Originally Posted by WCH

They can convert to manufacturing reusable bags. My wife has been using reusable bags for grocery shopping since the early 80's. We have some that are insulated for frozen and refrigerated items.

Just curious; do you guys eat veal?

[The Reaper]

Unintended consequences.

I wonder if they realize people can just choose to shop elsewhere?

That could put a serious dent in their tax revenues.

My wife comes back from her Monday shopping trip with 25 bags or more in the minivan. Should she bring a ruck full of cloth sacks to the grocery?

TR

[JJ_BPK]

Originally Posted by Dusty

Just curious; do you guys eat veal?

Love it,, scallopini, piccata, parmigiana..

[Pete]

Store plastic bags?

Just the right size for

1. Cleaning out the ashes in the Fire Place and grill.

2. Picking up dog waste in the back yard & cleaning the kitty box.

3. Lining the small trash containers in the office and bathrooms.

4. Taking to the garage to clean out the cars.

5. Good container for a fast pickup of the front yard and street - from the pigs who throw trash out their windows - tie it shut and throw it in the roll out as you come back to the house.

6. Wrapping paint brushes you're not quite done with.

And if the little bin under the sink gets too full the next one going to Food Lion stuffs the excess in one and drops them off at the recycle drop.

[longrange1947]

Originally Posted by Dusty

Just curious; do you guys eat veal?

Aw, mixing posts for better understanding of attitudes.

They are looking to Europe where they shop by the day and not by the week/month. Here I cannot see some of the big families that shop for the week using the totes that the Euros use nor the little cloth bags that I have seen at the Grocery store where my son shops in the DC area.

Agree, those that can, will simply slip out of the city limits and shop elsewhere. The land fill will still fill with plastic bags AND the idiots on the Council will still feel as if they have done something while sucking up to the idiots that call themselves "environmentalists".

[Dusty]

Originally Posted by longrange1947

Aw, mixing posts for better understanding of attitudes.

Just helps me get a mental picture of the poster.

Right now, I visualize an amalgam of Abbie Hoffman, Paul Lynde and Emmanuel Lewis.

[Pete]

Bio-degradable?

I've always wondered why they didn't make those little critters bio-degradable under UV light. Some places you can see dozens of those bags flapping on barbed wire fences.

Last winter I took one of those Sun Chip bags that were "bio-degradable" and stuck it in my garden in the fall to see how long it would take. Some pieces buried, some just on the ground and a couple stuck on stakes. Had to give up in the spring when it was planting time. None of the pieces looked any different.

[Penn]

Ok, I agree there are some difficulties instituting a program that requires people to plan and consider long term consequences; wrong forum. Also , I am somewhat surprised that a forum which prides itself on the ability to train up indigenous troops, cops out on domestic discipline in the home.