How does buying green bags help if the plastic bags are already made?
If the plastic bags are already in the store how would you be saving the world?
Hola Carmelita,
They will be in the store for as long as they are for free. If they charge us for having them, then we will be looking for using something else.
Look at this video, it's very touching: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_F8IQRw-1Hw
It's about how plastic bags thrown out kill at least 100,000 birds, whales, seals and turtles
every year. Animals die slowly of starvation or suffocation.
Once their bodies decompose the plastic bags are liberated to kill again.
I'll share something else I recently read:
Los Angeles Times, 07.23.08
The Los Angeles City Council voted Tuesday to ban plastic carryout bags in the city's supermarkets and stores by July 2010
Council members said they hope an impending ban would spur consumers to begin carrying canvas or other reusable bags, reducing the amount of plastic that washes into the city's storm drains and the ocean.
"This is a major moment for our city, to bite the bullet and go with something that is more ecologically sensitive than what we've ever done before," said Councilman Bill Rosendahl.
Los Angeles alone will put a dent in plastic bag consumption by reducing the 2.3 billion plastic bags it uses each year. We hope the city proves to be a model for many more across the nation.
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown announced last month that he would force supermarkets to charge for the bags, saying that they were “one of the most visible symbols of environmental waste.”
Retailers and some pressure groups, including the Campaign to Protect Rural England, threw their support behind him, and similar movements have spread across the United States.
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