City May Force Retailers To Charge For Paper Bags As Well (New York: buy, taxes)

[BlakeJones]

Originally Posted by Gantz

Paper use is down precisely because no one else is banning plastic bags. If other cities adopt it or there is a country-wide ban, it would be an environmental disaster.
Just like if you banned factory farming due to animal cruelty. Maybe a smallish city like SF doing it is fine, but if people do it en masse it would lead to either food shortages or massive environmental consequences as more land would need to be converted into farms. If China, US, and India ban plastic bags, there are no amount of logging ops planting 2 trees or whatever that would compensate for the surge and the sheer volume of paper needed. So replacing plastic with paper is just virtue signaling and is not an environmentally sustainable policy.

So obviously you have stats to back up your claim that paper bags replacing plastic bags would result in X% worldwide increase in paper production

[nightcrawler]

we should all start carrying thoise plastic plaid laundry bags where ever we go. they are strong and hold a lot of things

[BlakeJones]

Originally Posted by nightcrawler

we should all start carrying thoise plastic plaid laundry bags where ever we go. they are strong and hold a lot of things

lol I dare you, those are known as "homeless bags"

The non-homeless use Ikea bags

[Marshabrady]

Originally Posted by nightcrawler

we should all start carrying thoise plastic plaid laundry bags where ever we go. they are strong and hold a lot of things

NEVER

[Marshabrady]

Originally Posted by BlakeJones

lol I dare you, those are known as "homeless bags"

The non-homeless use Ikea bags

I do use these for laundry

[pierrepont7731]

Originally Posted by nightcrawler

we should all start carrying thoise plastic plaid laundry bags where ever we go. they are strong and hold a lot of things

Ugh... Those things are HIDEOUS!! Can you get ones any brighter?!??!

[randomperson2]

Just get a little flip and tumble bag that balls up into itself and stick it in your regular bag. $10-$12, lasts several years. Wide range of colors to choose from.

[nybklyn]

Is all about the money....

[nybklyn]

Originally Posted by nightcrawler

we should all start carrying thoise plastic plaid laundry bags where ever we go. they are strong and hold a lot of things

The next thing you know, everyone is a suspect of smuggling something

[speediestevie]

For paper v plastic debate, I urge you to carefully read this recent NYT article. I also thought that paper is better for the environment but I’ve learned a few things, like:

“On the other hand, paper bags typically require more energy and greenhouse gas emissions to produce, which isn’t great from a global warming standpoint.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/29/c...e=sectionfront