Paper or Plastic? - Perhaps An Irrelevant Question Soon
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If trends and social movements begin on the west coast, then the question of taking the groceries home in a plastic bag or a paper bag will become irrelevant. It will be paper bags; and it will be the law in San Francisco:
“The city legislator who introduced the bill, Ross Mirkarimi, said that up to 200 million plastic bags are used each year in the city of roughly 740,000 people.
It’s estimated a traditional plastic bag takes 1,000 years to dissolve.”
link: San Francisco bans traditional plastic grocery bags
You might want to save a few plastic bags for the grandchildren. The plastic bags may be valuable ‘antiques’ some day - quaint things with cute logos that were used at the beginning of the century.
Catherine Forsythe
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2 Comments
Enric
March 30th, 2007
at 2:48pm
In a thousand years all the landfills will suddenly depress ;)
BJ
May 30th, 2007
at 9:10am
It’s amazing how being PC can change… I remember when plastic was THE in-thing and when asked whether I wanted paper, I was looked upon like a criminal… for killing all the creatures within the forest! I wish I had all the names of those folks that picketed grocery stores for using paper bags instead of plastic. I guess some people just aren’t happy. Save a whale but kill an unborn!