Should Plastic Shopping Bags Be Banned?
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No. But maybe if biodegrable bags were made far more affordable for people to use, they may ues them. I love My SAMS club bags and use them all the time, but they cost $2 each and not everyone can afford that. Also not sure paper bags are any better for envirnment.
ReplyDeleteYes! By now everyone should be using the ones you can use over and over.
ReplyDeleteYES!
ReplyDeleteNo. Should people be responsible enough to recyle them? Yes.
ReplyDeleteYes. Everyone should carry their own cloth bags.
ReplyDeleteyes cuz even if they are recyclable you have 2 use energy to do that
ReplyDeletebetter to just bring cloth bags and not cre8 unnecessary things that takes oil to make them
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On average we use 4 plastic trash bags a week. Should they be banned?
ReplyDeleteMy wife and I eat several meals a week of microwave meals that come in plastic bowls or in plastic bags. Should they be banned?
When I go to the grocery store I put produce in those plastic bags that are provided. Should they be bannied.
My daughter walks her dog in a doggie park where they provide plastic bags for the messes. Should they be banned?
I say no to bannng plastic grocery bags. However, I do recommend careful disposal of all waste.
I recycle all my cans, plastic, glass and paper. How many that say no to plastic bags also do not recycle?
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ReplyDeletejust switch em to the plastic made from corn
ReplyDeletecorn - food, fuel, plastics, bourbon, more uses coming :)
Yes! N. Carolina has banned them on the Outer Banks and there is a noticeable reduction in plastic litter along the roads and ditches. The biggest complaint has been over dog poop but even that cry is diminishing as people cope.
ReplyDeleteheck yea they're plenty of alternatives .
ReplyDeleteno. the bags are fine. the environmentalists are the problem.
ReplyDeletemaybe joe 'forogt' to post this the first time.
anonymous 11:32, I didn't "forget" to post anything. Your comment is certainly acceptable. Maybe YOU forgot to send it. Maybe it got lost in cyberspace. Nevertheless, don't just assume. By the way, YOU would have sent me an e-mail message asking why your message didn't get published, unless you're afraid I might find out you're one of the Anti Albero idiots.
ReplyDeleteNo. We have the cloth bags and we use them for our larger purchase trips.
ReplyDeleteHowever, for our smaller shopping trips, we don't use them. We get the plastic.
We do recycle, cans, plastic, metal, and we use our vegetable peels for compost.
We have plastic bag holders and we reuse the grocery store plastic bags for many things including cleaning out the litter box.
We also use them to wrap our wet paint brushes when we're painting and other things too.
All of our bags get used more than once counting the trip from the store.
If we have a bag which is ripped and it not reusable, it goes into the plastic recycling tub.
So, no, I don't thing they should be outlawed. I think more people need to take steps to reuse AND recycle!
HELL NO! Where and why is it anyone's business what kind of bag we can use? Just because you don't like the choice someone else makes doesn't make it your business or give you any right to tell them what they can or cannot use. If plastic bags are so bad and the market/general population in large numbers wants something else, then the market will eventually make that change on its own.
ReplyDeleteI agree with the youngster who posted in code above. I changed habits about 6 months ago. Don't miss the grocery plastic at all. Recycling is a wonderful thing and all, but if there's something we don't have to have that causes problems, get rid of it. We have become a little too convenience-oriented in our society. Plastic everything. I like my modern conveniences, too, but I didn't need all these plastic bags as a kid and made out just fine. Mom had these linen, burlap, canvas and other sacks. As for dog poop, waxed paper and a twist tie work for me just fine.
ReplyDeleteI say no. We should recycle them though. People will throw trash along the highways whether it is paper or plastic. We need to educate the younger ones in school in order for recycling to succeed.
ReplyDeleteno. but they shouldn't be free. people should pay for plastic bags if they want 'em.
ReplyDeleteWhy should I have to pay for plastic bags when I'm already spending money to get to the store to buy my stuff when I get them and then spending my gas and wear and tear on my vehicle to recycle them at the landfill???
ReplyDelete4:12, bet you'd tax anyone for anything wouldn't ya!
It's hard to find places to recycle them. Where do you take plastic shopping bags in Salisbury to be recycled?
ReplyDeleteI see more trash from fastfood restaurants on the side of the road than plastic bags. Fastfood companies should be "taxed" or required to pay a clean up fee.....biodegradeable bags should replace the current plastic bags. BTW: they burn pretty well in the trash barrel along with paper products.
ReplyDeleteIn Delaware, you can take them to any recycling center.
ReplyDeleteGiant has containers outside for plastic bags.
ReplyDeleteThere is absolutly NO benefit to banning plastic bags!
ReplyDeletePaper bags create more "Polution" to create. Reusable bags are filthy with germs and disease.
Once you get below the surface of the environazi proposals you find out that they are NOT based in any science!
Both plastic and paper bags have environmental consequences. The best thing to do is to bring your own reusable bags. That being said, I don't do it and probably will not in the future. That's just being real with you folks.
ReplyDeleteNormally I would say no, but then I read this article recently about a dead whale that washed up somewhere in Washington State, I think, and when they did an autopsy on it, they found PLASIC GROCERY bags in its stomach. Now I'm not a big "Save the Animanls" kind of person (sorry), but that does seems like a horrible way to die, if that's what killed it. I don't know.
ReplyDeletehey 4:36 - I didn't say anything about a tax. I just think that stores should charge for bags. It could be a nice little revenue stream. As it is now...most stores consider it the cost of doing business. I want that to change. It's time for the consumer to pay for the benefit of having a bag or plan ahead and bring your own.
ReplyDeleteNo,because people will still litter.Impose stiffer fines on those caught littering-you cant ban everything.I think its disgusting to see balled up dirty diapers people toss into parking lots but who is banning diapers?
ReplyDeleteI think we should be able to exchange a certain number of plastic bags for a reusable bag. Eventually this should eliminate any excuse for using plastic bags.
ReplyDeleteI would also be interested in a survey question on what people think about the union wages that some grocery worker make. Also I don't think that Food Lion workers make union wages. If this is true, then why are their prices competitive with union stores?
NO people with dogs need to get in the habit of using them to pick up their dog sh!@t
ReplyDeleteWe have cloth bags. My husband remembers to use them and I can't seem to. But if I were charged even two or three cents per plastic bag one time, I think I'd be able to remember to take along my cloth bags the next time. As for doggie poop, I'd hope I'd have a few plastic bags on hand. Just an opinion.
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