Single Use Plastic Bags

[He Man]

Stuff like this kinda gets to me. At my school theres seperating garbage for plastic recycling and paper recyling and general garbage...except 1 truck comes to pick them up and mixes it into regular trash.

Anyway just thought it was an intresting video. I rarely take bags, i usually carry stuff in my kriega.

PLASTIC STATE OF MIND - Parody with Purpose

[Howie]

Thank you for the PSA and good on you for not using the single use bags.  CUNY really sucks at recycling.  Shame on them.

I hate single use plastic bags!!  The yellow one too high to get to on my magnolia tree has finally blown away, only to be replaced by a white one

[Slide Panda]

DC (and probably other areas) have enacted a tax on them. In DC there's a $0.05 tax per bag. A complete ban might be hard to pull off... but can't say I mind taxing 'em.

[ducpainter]

Yup...we're a brilliant society.

Invent something that lasts forever...

and make it disposable.   

[redxblack]

DC (and probably other areas) have enacted a tax on them. In DC there's a $0.05 tax per bag. A complete ban might be hard to pull off... but can't say I mind taxing 'em.

They're a nickel in Toronto as well. The store I go to gives a 5 cent discount for each bag you bring. It's not so hard to keep a few bags in the car. I'd like to see the plastic bag ban, but allow stores to sell paper grocery sacks for a dime each.

[mitt]

We got used to bringing our own reusable while living in France - you paid for each disposable one you get if don't bring your own.  Now it is like normal for us.


mitt

[JEFF_H]

according to my inside source....
the local Albertsons grocery store takes the plastic bags from the recycle bin at the front of the store and throws them info the trash every night.


many grocery stores have the paper bags hidden somewhere below checkout, and they dont have handles

I do get plastic bags sometimes..but i get 3 uses.
taking groceries home, take lunch to work, picking up the afternoon dog-walk poop.

didnt SF make plastic grocery bags illegal?

[Monster Dave]

Check this out - it would seem that trying to be environmentally conscious could be bad for your health.

Reusable bags contain high levels of lead:

http://dailycaller.com/2010/11/12/study-shows-reusable-bags-contain-high-levels-of-lead-content/

[GAAN]

http://www.ecobags.com/Our_Products/Canvas_Bags

[ducpainter]

Check this out - it would seem that trying to be environmentally conscious could be bad for your health.

Reusable bags contain high levels of lead:

http://dailycaller.com/2010/11/12/study-shows-reusable-bags-contain-high-levels-of-lead-content/

No one gets out alive.

[Buckethead]

Growing up in the middle of nowhere, I always kind of thought of the blue Wal Mart bag as the late 20th century version of a tumbleweed. Not that we didn't have tumbleweeds, but blue bags were much more prevalent.

I make it a point to TRY to reuse and then recycle them when I end up getting them, but I try not to get them to begin with.

[Raux]

Here in Germany it's done pretty well.

We use canvas bags for shopping for the most part.
If we get plastic bags they are very biodegradeable type, and we get a least a second use by using them for cat litter.

We separate into
Plastic and Metals
Papers
Glass and some places break it down by color
Garbage (food -if no Bio- or non-recycleable material)
Biodegrabeable (some areas only, the food, lawn etc. is put in this for use in city  compost farms which they turn around and give away or sell at low cost)

[ducatiz]

I like pooping into a plastic bag and sealing it shut.

I double bag all my trash.

I want to be remembered forever and ever.

[Monster Dave]

I like pooping into a plastic bag and sealing it shut.

I double bag all my trash.

I want to be remembered forever and ever.