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News & ArtsThursday, December 15, 2011
City / Enviro Today Is A Day Without a Bag
Posted by Eli Sanders on Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 6:00 AM
- jocic / shutterstock
- Not today!
Via the Surfrider Foundation, People for Puget Sound, and other groups pushing for a plastic bag ban in Seattle, news that today is going to be A Day Without a Bag.
What's that?
A Day Without a Bag is an educational grassroots even started by Heal the Bay in Los Angeles. Held the third Thursday in December, we ask holiday shoppers and retailers to forgo single-use, plastic shopping bags in favor of reusable bags.
Simple. Reasonable. And if you're at the right spot in Seattle today, you might see a "bag monster" ready to make you a reusable bag offer you can't refuse.
1
That evil bag monster has almost pushed the whales from Star Trek IV to extinction! Please, wont someone think of the whale children!!?
2
send the bag monster over to all the asian markets in the i.d.
( i'm looking directly at you lam's seafood on 12th and king..and viet wah on jackson near 12th)..folks in these parts bag their bags even.. separate bags for everything and then everything lumped in multiple bags..you wouldn't believe it until you saw it.
( i'm looking directly at you lam's seafood on 12th and king..and viet wah on jackson near 12th)..folks in these parts bag their bags even.. separate bags for everything and then everything lumped in multiple bags..you wouldn't believe it until you saw it.
3
Well, who handles the pr on these events? I only now just found out about it, and I'm three shopping bags into the day already.
4
Every day is a day without a bag for me. Except when I forget to bring my shopping bags, but that almost never happens anymore.
5
Single use? o.O You mean we aren't allowed to use them as garbage bags in place of buying more plastic bags. Well damn, I gotta get to the store and toss all these shopping bags out on the way.
6
While I have reusable bags and only use plastic if I forget (or as @5 said, need more recycle bin bags), I really want one of those green bags in the picture.
It's mesmerizing....
It's mesmerizing....
7
Someone clarify this for me? Has there been any initiative, whatsoever, to put recycling protocols in place for single-use plastic bags?
You're only going to find certain appeal--that is leftist, non-mainstream appeal--for the banning of such plastic bags. As such, a plastic bag ban only serves to reduce convenience, which people aren't likely to surrender.
You're only going to find certain appeal--that is leftist, non-mainstream appeal--for the banning of such plastic bags. As such, a plastic bag ban only serves to reduce convenience, which people aren't likely to surrender.
9
As a retailer in Seattle, I now ask people if they need a bag when they just buy something small, and it is nice to see that most people say no. If they already have a bag or a large purse or backpack, they usually just use that. I love my green Seattle people!
10
Simple. Reasonable. And totally missing the point of anything at all. No bays will be healed, no garbage islands will be reduced, no wildlife will be saved. Nothing will happen at all except a great deal of smugness from hypocrites who take huge personal credit for solving 0.01% of the problem while continuing to dump the other 99.99% behind them in a trail of plastics.
11
Fnarf is right. For the "true believers" out there, I'd like you to try to go one hour without coming into contact with something made of plastic. Unless you're asleep, I'll bet you can't do it. I'll bet most of you wouldn't make it 15 minutes.
12
@10, That sounds a little too much like the smug and lazy conservatard's rationale for not doing anything at all. The little things aren't going to solve the problems instantly, but enough little things eventually make a much bigger thing. We gotta start somewhere.
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