We banned single use plastic bags. So the grocery companies started using EXTRA THICK PLASTIC claiming it was ‘reusable’. Arguably have been polluting even more since we made that switch.
Hopefully we will finally rid ourselves of plastic grocery bags.
They are re-usable but so were the old ones. A lot of people re-use these bags for various things like trash can liners.
Honestly this whole thing went off the rails when plastic bags were introduced. “Paper or Plastic” was an oft asked, and ridiculed, question a couple of decades ago.
The trees used in the manufacture of paper bags come from cultivated forests so nothing was really being saved PLUS if we’d stuck with paper bags it would have boosted recycling, specifically paper recycling.
Well intentioned interference is what created this mess. We should have left things as they were.
We banned single use plastic bags. So the grocery companies started using EXTRA THICK PLASTIC claiming it was ‘reusable’. Arguably have been polluting even more since we made that switch.
Hopefully we will finally rid ourselves of plastic grocery bags.
They are re-usable but so were the old ones. A lot of people re-use these bags for various things like trash can liners.
Honestly this whole thing went off the rails when plastic bags were introduced. “Paper or Plastic” was an oft asked, and ridiculed, question a couple of decades ago.
The trees used in the manufacture of paper bags come from cultivated forests so nothing was really being saved PLUS if we’d stuck with paper bags it would have boosted recycling, specifically paper recycling.
Well intentioned interference is what created this mess. We should have left things as they were.