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U.N. Official Calls for Worldwide Ban on Plastic Bags
« on: June 09, 2009, 12:03:35 PM »
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U.N. Official Calls for Worldwide Ban on Plastic Bags

Paper or plastic? Soon, you may not hear that question anymore.

A top U.N. official on Monday called for a worldwide ban on single-use "thin" plastic shopping bags, the kind you get at the grocery store.

"Single-use plastic bags which choke marine life should be banned or phased out rapidly everywhere," said Achim Steiner, head of the U.N. Environment Program, according to McClatchy Newspapers. "There is simply zero justification for manufacturing them any more, anywhere."

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But the plastic-bag industry says that its bags aren't the problem — it's the people who throw them out.

"Recycling is what we see as the best approach for the U.S.," Keith Christman of the American Chemistry Council told McClatchy. "Plastic is just too valuable to waste."

I'm sure glad the UN is out there telling me what is best.   :whatever:

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Re: U.N. Official Calls for Worldwide Ban on Plastic Bags
« Reply #1 on: June 09, 2009, 12:13:25 PM »
The UN would REALLY hate me. When I lived in MN, I'd do some shopping at Cub Foods. I would place a paper bag inside one of those plastic bags. That made them easier to carry. I DID, however, dispose of the plastic bags properly.
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« Reply #2 on: June 09, 2009, 12:16:26 PM »
I like the paper bags because they hold more and don't let everything in them roll around the car on the way home, but I despise the "rolled eyes look" from the sacker at the grocery store when I ask for paper bags.  Most of 'em have no idea how to load a paper bag.
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« Reply #3 on: June 09, 2009, 12:19:42 PM »
Quote from: lug-nut on June 09, 2009, 12:16:26 PM
Most of 'em have no idea how to load a paper bag.


Hell, most of them don't know how to load the plastic bags, either.
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Re: U.N. Official Calls for Worldwide Ban on Plastic Bags
« Reply #4 on: June 09, 2009, 12:22:22 PM »
Quote from: Thor on June 09, 2009, 12:19:42 PM
Hell, most of them don't know how to load the plastic bags, either.
True...it's not like they hire rocket surgeons for those jobs.   :-)
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« Reply #5 on: June 09, 2009, 12:32:40 PM »
The store that we shop at most  , you have to bag your own groceries and they have both paper and plastic available.  We use both depending on what is being bagged up.
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« Reply #6 on: June 09, 2009, 12:46:53 PM »
WTF?!?!?!

What am I supposed to carry my sea turtle eggs home in?
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Re: U.N. Official Calls for Worldwide Ban on Plastic Bags
« Reply #7 on: June 09, 2009, 12:57:28 PM »
Quote from: Mr Snuggle Bunny on June 09, 2009, 12:46:53 PM
WTF?!?!?!

What am I supposed to carry my sea turtle eggs home in?

Use the baby seal skin bags with the spotted owl feathers on them.
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Re: U.N. Official Calls for Worldwide Ban on Plastic Bags
« Reply #8 on: June 09, 2009, 01:03:33 PM »
Quote from: thundley4 on June 09, 2009, 12:57:28 PM
Use the baby seal skin bags with the spotted owl feathers on them.
I like your style.
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Re: U.N. Official Calls for Worldwide Ban on Plastic Bags
« Reply #9 on: June 09, 2009, 04:59:30 PM »
Quote from: thundley4 on June 09, 2009, 12:57:28 PM
Use the baby seal skin bags with the spotted owl feathers on them.
With whale bone handles, right?
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« Reply #10 on: June 09, 2009, 05:17:00 PM »
Quote from: lug-nut on June 09, 2009, 04:59:30 PM
With whale bone handles, right?

I'm think elephant tusk ivory or maybe white rhino horn.
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Re: U.N. Official Calls for Worldwide Ban on Plastic Bags
« Reply #11 on: June 10, 2009, 10:16:04 AM »
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True...it's not like they hire rocket surgeons for those jobs
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Re: U.N. Official Calls for Worldwide Ban on Plastic Bags
« Reply #12 on: June 10, 2009, 10:25:08 AM »
Quote from: lug-nut on June 09, 2009, 12:16:26 PM
I like the paper bags because they hold more and don't let everything in them roll around the car on the way home, but I despise the "rolled eyes look" from the sacker at the grocery store when I ask for paper bags.  Most of 'em have no idea how to load a paper bag.


I worked in a little grocery store at one point in my adult life and I loved when people asked for paper. You could get more in it and it just seemed to stack and organize better.

Forget about paper, most of the teenage boys bagging don't know how to load plastic either! Logically though, it kinda makes sense, they probably haven't done an awful lot of grocery shopping to understand the repercussions of bagging improperly, but you think they'd figure it out at some point. These stores actually give lessons on bagging--lol.
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Re: U.N. Official Calls for Worldwide Ban on Plastic Bags
« Reply #13 on: June 10, 2009, 11:03:17 AM »
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