San Francisco to ban plastic grocery bags?
Related to my post yesterday on plastic bag-hate. NPR had a good story this morning on San Francisco's proposed ban on plastic bags. The grocery industry opposes it. But their logic doesn't hold water.
"In our opinion, it will frustrate our efforts to continue to reduce, re-use and recycle carry-out bags," Larkin [president of the California Grocers Association] said.
On the other hand, Larkin conceeded that
[There will be a] potential domino effect if San Francisco bans plastic grocery bags. Larkin says he expects a potential ban here would spread in California. The bags have already been outlawed in South Africa, Taiwan and Bangladesh. Ireland imposes a plastic-bag tax.
My prediction? The world will continue to turn around its axis even if plastic bags are outlawed everywhere. And sea creatures will be spared from swallowing them (thinking they are food) and suffocating to death.
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