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No
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Yes coz they’re so ugly among other things.
No, theyre useful and woke alternatives are proven to be worse and counterproductive.
Yes. They are useful but so much pollution... I can live without them. They should charge 50c ea, not 5 or 10c.
OozmaKappa wrote:
No, theyre useful and woke alternatives are proven to be worse and counterproductive.
You sound too enclosed in an anti-woke bubble to know that woke and plastic have little to do with each other.
blogi wrote:
OozmaKappa wrote:
No, theyre useful and woke alternatives are proven to be worse and counterproductive.
You sound too enclosed in an anti-woke bubble to know that woke and plastic have little to do with each other.
Only wokes care about plastic bags, straws, meat, carbon, etc.
Yes.
Yes.
As part of my business I shop just about everyday. My state banned them a year or two ago. I now just wheel the unbagged goods to my car in the shopping cart and carry them inside without bags. It's pretty easy. Now if I lived in a 10 story walkup, I'd carry cloth bags.
Yes, really tired of all the bags that blow up with the wind and get stuck in trees
NO
No
1. It’s along with most global warming a marketing lore selling good feelings like charity donation frauds
2. Plastic bags don’t do much to net carbon output… It takes energy to create and dispose of any sort of bag…
3. Carbon output globally is majority a function of standard of living of populations…
4. Other Third World countries are increasing standard of living therefore it is impossible to mitigate carbon output realistically by individual trying to cut down.
5. If everyone in the World teamed up and cut their output by 50% they would be cutting their standard of living hugely… won’t happen…
6. Any excess carbon problem will be solved by chemical engineering solutions and other engineering solutions…
Yeah you could do a cloth bag for everyone but compared to other sources of carbon output… that means little other than maybe .001%?
Yes. Here in New Zealand and Australia we've had them banned for the last 5 years or so. Best move ever. People now just bring their own reusable bags to the supermarket. Cuts down so much on plastic waste!
Maybe people should have to use three extra plastic bags and On them says:
Bike to work ! you cloth bag virtue signaling Whore! Haha
Yeah but real carbon Output aside, plastic waste is kind of unnecessary and ugly and doesn’t go away fast so I think yeah you maybe do want to ban them…
im fine with it. NYS banned them a couple years ago, and it hasn't affected my life even one little bit. of course, I've been using the same 5 re-usable bags for 2 years. Im sure there are people who end up buying in new bags every 5 trips to the store. in that case, are you saving anything?
i wonder how many disposable bags it takes to make 1 reusable bag.
No. As a libertarian, I personally far prefer single use plastics. I believe it is more sanitary and convenient.
PaseusReal wrote:
No
1. It’s along with most global warming a marketing lore selling good feelings like charity donation frauds
2. Plastic bags don’t do much to net carbon output… It takes energy to create and dispose of any sort of bag…
3. Carbon output globally is majority a function of standard of living of populations…
4. Other Third World countries are increasing standard of living therefore it is impossible to mitigate carbon output realistically by individual trying to cut down.
5. If everyone in the World teamed up and cut their output by 50% they would be cutting their standard of living hugely… won’t happen…
6. Any excess carbon problem will be solved by chemical engineering solutions and other engineering solutions…
I don't think plastic bag bans are about reducing carbon emissions. It's about reducing plastic pollution, because the bags end up in rivers, lakes, and oceans and impact ecosystems and wildlife.
OozmaKappa wrote:
Only wokes care about plastic bags, straws, meat, carbon, etc.
As someone else mentioned, "woke" and "plastic" have little to do with each other.
It will be interesting to see if "woke" continues to be the most misused and dumbest sounding word in 2022. If people just realized how much of a chucklehead they sounded like when they used, and misused the word. My guess is that most of them are pretty insecure about their masculinity and have teeny tiny peeny weenies. To compensate, they use the word, among other things, so that they feel like a big & bad he-man.
To answer the question, I'm in favor of phasing them out. I'm not sure that a total ban is needed yet. They are ugly and some of them end up in my yard on windy days stuck in trees and that irritates me to no end - especially if they're up 25 ft in a tree. There should probably be a 25 or 50¢ charge per bag and I'm sure that would cut down on them. They can be useful for lining little trashcans around the house. My daughter also uses them to put cat shït in when she cleans her cat's litterbox. I'm sure that alternatives could be found for both uses. I use reusable bags when at all possible and I probably save 10-20+ bags on each large grocery store trip and 2 or 3 on the smaller ones. Extrapolate that over a year and that probably about 1000 bags.
I'm not some granola boy tree hugger type that thinks the manufacture of plastic bags causes a big carbon footprint. I just know that the plastic will never decompose in a landfill and I get irritated when I see them when I'm out on a hike or run in the woods or driving down the road and see them on the side of the road because of some fuking slob that couldn't properly dispose of their trash.