Okay, I admit my ignorance here. When the bagger at the grocery store says, "Paper or Plastic?" I always said, "Plastic, of course!", thinking of all the trees that I was so righteously saving. Not necessarily so. It may actually be better for the environment to say, "Paper". Those plastic bags cause all sorts of problems, including litter, but also waste a LOT of petroleum, a natural resource that the earth is running out of. The real solution is to use a re-usable bag, maybe canvas? The Children's Team at my church have been selling Chico Bags as a fundraiser, in an attempt to raise money AND promote green living. Chico Bags are bags that are similar to those plastic bags, but are made of nylon.
Want to see something funny, though? Check out this short video of the Plastic Bag Monster from the folks at Chico Bags: "">/a
I'm most scared about the giant mass of plastic bags floating in the ocean just off the coast of California....
"In the Northern Pacific Gyre, a great vortex of ocean currents, there's now a swirling mass of plastic trash about 1,000 miles off the coast of California, which spans an area that's twice the size of Texas, including fragments of plastic bags. There's six times as much plastic as biomass, including plankton and jellyfish, in the gyre. "
NOW THAT'S A PLASTIC BAG MONSTER!!!!
See the full article: http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2007/08/10/plastic_bags/
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That video is funny...yet creepy all at the same time. how about I was at walmart (out south) this morning and they have a display rack, with reusable grocery bags for $1 each! I thought that was very cool!
I'm not so bad, you know... I'm a family Bag Monster with millions of little Bag Monster spawn to worry about. Some of them live under kitchen sinks, but most of them live in the bay and ocean. We love the water and it's one of the main reasons we moved to San Francisco 40 years ago. That, and the fact that San Francisco was such a tolerant place where the Bag Monster Family could live free of oppression... at least that was the case until the "tolerant liberals" on the city council decided to kick us all out of town because we make an expensive mess and because a few of us were eaten by marine animals... Don't they know better than to eat Bag Monsters? I guess not. We disagree with the council, but we know when we're not welcome... We're going to have a going away party on Tuesday, November 20th from 6-9 at 111 Minna Gallery (at 2nd Street between Market and Mission). For more info go to http://plasticbagaddiction.blogspot.com.
Goodbye San Francisco! The Bag Monster Family will miss you!
Maybe we'll go to a more tolerant community like Berkeley or Marin...
I want the library to start selling reusable grocery bags with our logo. I think they'd hold a fair number of library books. They'd be cheaper than canvas, and I'd rather advertise the library while toting my groceries than somebody else's logo anyhow.
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