The Democrats proposed Plastic bag ban is terrible for the environment. The lifecycle of replacements not only have a larger carbon footprint (if that’s your worry) most of them are made in places that put almost all the waste-plastic we’re supposed to care about into the ocean.
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If you are buying and using those bags, you are creating a market for more waste plastic not less.
They Were Never Green, to Begin With
Study after study shows that ‘reusable’ bags use more carbon to create, transport, and wash. If you don’t wash them, you invite a slew of carbon-intensive side effects that result from care for foodborne illness.
Disposing of them has a higher carbon footprint as well. Using them wastes labor and energy in the check-out line. They are not better for the environment.
If you don’t buy into the carbon footprint reduction voodoo, maybe you’ve accepted the sketchy narratives about plastic in the ocean. That sounds like a thing. I’ll just take their word for it and use a few of these annoying nasty bags I must carry everywhere I go. But the majority of the “reusable bags” on the market are made in places China, one of the leading polluters on the planet. A leading contributor to plastic waste in the ocean.
Thin-film plastic is better. Use it twice, and there are no reusable bags that can compete (unless you reuse them hundred and in one case thousands of times). And if you think your choice of shopping or grocery bag will make any difference, choosing bags made from China will.
You Could Save Some US Jobs
Thin film bags in our stores are made in the US creating American jobs. Reusable bags made in Chinese factories are creating jobs in China that are dumping their plastic waste into the world’s waters.
The United States is contributing next to nothing in the way of plastic waste in the Ocean. So, if you’re concerned about that, stop using products from countries that are polluters. And you begin by embracing thin-film plastic over reusable bags.
And they support (hint-hint0 Governor Sununu’s veto of the plastic straw and plastic bag ban bills making their way through the Democrat majority legislature. They are bad for you, your needs, and the planet.
