Posted by: johnny_a
in MyBlog on Aug 26, 2008
Stephen Joseph, counsel for savetheplasticbag.com, provides his counterpoints to a proposed 25 cent fee for all plastic and paper bags used by consumers in the state of California in his op-ed piece in today's LA Times.
I've never heard of the fact that plastic bags don't decompose in the landfills referred to as "a blessing", but Joseph manages to work it into this article. This is a rather comical statement coming from one that accuses his opponents on the issue of spreading "misinformation".
Posted by: johnny_a
in MyBlog on Aug 23, 2008
Add another city to the list of those that are helping to eliminate the waste of plastic bags that are just dumped in the landfills. Does anyone old enough to remember know how we possible could have gotten along without these things thirty years ago?
From the Pacific Business News-
Posted by: johnny_a
in MyBlog on Aug 22, 2008
Those 99 cent reusable shopping bags that you can buy in the supermarkets and big-box stores look nice with their brightly-colored "fabric". They're also a great impulse buy, positioned right at the checkout lines.
Sure, reusing these non-woven polypropylene (plastic) bags is better than taking the filmy plastic bags and throwing them out right away. But what's going to happen when they get torn up by the kids or family dog, break, or just plain get thrown out?
