Sunday, April 08, 2018

Foreign Paper Attacks Made-Up US Problem, Real Americans Set Things Straight

Here in the People's Democratic Republic of Kalifornia, we don't get our groceries in plastic bags.  No, plastic bags are reserved for all stores except those that sell groceries.  If plastic bags are so bad, why don't we put our clothing purchases in cloth bags brought from home???

Uh oh.  Perhaps I'd better not post that.  It might give the idiots in the big white building downtown more ideas.

Anyway, the UK's Spectator writes about how many countries ban plastic bags but those horrible Muricans won't.  The first several comments on that post give me hope for this country:


  • shiny • 4 hours ago

    I lived 300 feet from the Atlantic Ocean for five years and cannot recall seeing even one plastic bag washed up on the shore during that entire time.
    What on Earth would possess someone to invent a fictional problem (an epidemic of plastic bags on America's beaches) and then lecture the United States on its inaction at addressing this non-existent problem in a foreign publication?









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    John Marston • 4 hours ago

    "Shocking report reveals that 95% of plastic polluting the world's oceans comes from just TEN rivers including the Ganges and Niger"
    Note that none of them are in the US.
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/...










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    Dennis the Peasant • 5 hours ago

    The streets of the United States don't look like the streets of Kenya, with plastic bags blowing everywhere. It's not an Issue here because we have adequate sanitation. Virtually every major store in the US has a recycle box where you can place old bags. Some people, gasp, reuse them as trash bags in their bathroom trashcans or some other place.
    In short, it's a non-issue of the sort that busy-body do-gooders whip themselves into a frenzy over. The piles of trash you see in the oceans are primarily from third world countries who have no societal taboo against littering.
    I'm looking at you India, China and Africa.










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    Dantes • 5 hours ago

    The US takes care of its waste. We don't throw it in the water like many other countries. Why don't you go lecture those that do.
    http://www.ibtimes.com/chin...










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    GlobalTrvlr • 6 hours ago

    I live on the ocean, and plastic is a huge issue. But I never see plastic bags.










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    alanstorm • 6 hours ago

    Calling them "single-use" displays the problem in a nutshell: Those who are opposed to them are the people who use them only once. I save them and use them for all sorts of things.
    Free your mind, and the rest will follow. The people wanting to ban these are the ones who've imprisoned themselves.









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    OccupiedTerritory • 6 hours ago

    Let me help you here: The bags are really a non-issue environmentally. Their mass is practically nil. Compare the mass of one bag to the mass of, say, a milk bottle cap. The cap is many times the mass. And there are many many items of plastic in any grocery store purchase. As for clogging the ocean w/ these bags, last year it was reported that nearly all the plastic that ends up in the oceans comes from 5 sources--in India, Thailand (I think), China, and perhaps somewhere else. Not the US, not the UK. A non-issue, but people feel good banning them, so they get banned.













Governor Moonbeam wants to ban internal combustion engines, too. I fear there are enough enviro-wacko weenies here in the PDRK to make it a real issue some day.
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1 comment:

  1. Unknown2:58 PM

    Midwesterner here, so I don't see bags in the ocean. But I do see them up in the trees, fer crying out loud! Lots of them. In the winter you can see bare-branch trees with fifteen or twenty bags stuck in them. We recently got a ban on single-use bags (OK, not a ban but you have to pay for them). It was inconvenient to get used to this, but I'm perfectly OK with it now. And the trees look a lot better.

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