Editorial: What plastic bag ban? California stores still doling out disposable sacks
Updated 11:18 pm, Sunday, November 7, 2012
California is not ready to be done picking up its bag of recycled, reusable garbage. Now that the country is moving away from single-use plastic bags, why stop at banning them from businesses?
The reason is simple: Because it’s convenient. And convenient is good.
Now, Californians are not opposed to plastic bags. They do not need them.
They also don’t need a ban for the simple reason that the plastic ones already in use are not actually recycled. For example, most supermarkets have large plastic bags for produce and many of them are recycled. So, what plastic bag ban?
California is not ready to be done picking up its bag of recycled, reusable garbage. Now that the country is moving away from single-use plastic bags, why stop at banning them from businesses?
The reason is simple: Because it’s convenient. And convenient is good.
Now, Californians are not opposed to plastic bags. They do not need them.
They also don’t need a ban for the simple reason that the plastic ones already in use are not actually recycled. For example, most supermarkets have large plastic bags for produce and many of them are recycled. So, what plastic bag ban?
The reason is simple: Because it’s convenient. And convenient is good.
California is not ready to be done picking up its bag of recycled, reusable garbage. Now that the country is moving away from single-use plastic bags, why stop at banning them from businesses?
The reason is simple: Because it’s convenient. And convenient is good.
Now, Californians are not opposed to plastic bags. They do not need them.
They also don’t need a ban for the simple reason that the plastic ones already in use are not actually recycled. For example, most supermarkets have large plastic bags for produce and many of them are recycled. So, what plastic bag ban?
They have already banned the use of plastic bags in grocery stores, so why ban them in the rest of the retail chain? It would reduce trash in landfills.
“I think it would be a bad idea