Sierra Club's Drew Martin fights plastic bags
Blamed for littering streets and choking marine life, San Francisco banned the use of plastic bags at large (any store that has gross sales of over $2 million a year) supermarkets and pharmacies. Customers now must use compostable bags or recyclable paper bags. The city had distributed 180 million plastic bags that used 774,000 gallons of oil just to manufacture them.
Ireland has reduced its plastic bag consumption by 90%. In 2008, China banned the use of them. It used 37 million barrels of crude oil on plastic bag production. A barrel is made up of 42 gallons. Uganda also joined the bag ban.
Here, in this country, initiatives are not quite as simple. Politicians are lead around by the nose by the "4th branch of government," the lobbyists, that are looking out for the big businesses they represent whose shareholders will lose money if plastic bags are banned. It is always a challenging hypocrisy.It doesn't seem that it was that many years ago when our groceries were bagged in paper. Then later we were asked, "Plastic or paper?" Finally there was no choice but 100% plastic.
The best thing to do is bring your own bag when you have light shopping.
Brought forth by Commissioner Mulvehill, this plastic bag issue will be on the Agenda tonight under New Business.
2 comments:
To make "Ban the plastic Bags" not a negative slogan,
I made an intelligent suggestion, of course totally ignored by the self absorbed Commission and employees!
I suggested:
Simultaneously stop manufacturing plastic carrier bags from petrol while replacing that manufacturing job with using recycled materials simultaneously globally, not just in America.
No one acknowledged it, they are too busy with catering to
illegals with our money, and blocking our most important revenue source, our 1921 Lake Worth Casino, which would have opened with Straticon doing the Job last year ,this March!!!!!!
Dee McNamara.
To make "Ban the plastic Bags" not a negative slogan,
I made an intelligent suggestion, of course totally ignored by the self absorbed Commission and employees!
I suggested:
Simultaneously stop manufacturing plastic carrier bags from petrol while replacing that manufacturing job with using recycled materials simultaneously globally, not just in America.
No one acknowledged it, they are too busy with catering to
illegals with our money, and blocking our most important revenue source, our 1921 Lake Worth Casino, which would have opened with Straticon doing the Job last year ,this March!!!!!!
Dee McNamara.
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