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If we reverse the ban, what do we do about all the plastic bags collecting in trees and the ocean? Do we not care about that now and just accept that when you go to the beach in the future it will be littered with plastic?
Is that anywhere near here? I'm thinking third world, where there's no effective garbage collection system.
I've been on the beach in the Rockaways, and never seen anything even vaguel like that.
You need to open your eyes. Our oceans are becoming FILLED with plastic, so much so that the wildlife is ingesting it. Serious problem. Instead of complaining about being slightly inconvenienced, we need to continue to work on reducing our carbon footprint and REUSING and RECYCLING.
I stopped using plastic bags years ago and have no issue with the new ban. Bring your own bag. Simple as that. Not that difficult to do.
I like the supermarket plastic bags because I use them for my household trash. Now I have to keep buying from store instead of free from supermarket.
As for plastic in the ocean. We need to stop shipping garbage in open container barges across oceans. Bury the garbage inland. Stop littering so plastics dont get washed out. Costing more money is mute because how much will it cost us when most of the fish we eat are dead?
so now that I can't get free bags from the grocery store for my garbage, I buy plastic bags for the garbage. My costs have increased, I don't get the advantage here. Seems that only the grocery store benefits since they don't have to supply free bags.
so now that I can't get free bags from the grocery store for my garbage, I buy plastic bags for the garbage. My costs have increased, I don't get the advantage here. Seems that only the grocery store benefits since they don't have to supply free bags.
Get the compostable / biodegradable variety. That's what I do. I also think that's what the supply chain should be shift towards in terms of single or limited use plastics in general. It costs more now, but a lot of that is because there isn't the same economies of scale as traditional plastics.
The thing with the free floating bags given is that a lot of people aren't like you in being fastidious about keeping bags for later use and making sure all of that makes its way to proper trashcans. This more or less makes it so more are like you in their use with plastic bags relegated more exclusively towards being put in trashcans as packed bags of trash rather than free floating or thrown around. It'll probably take a while to really notice the difference on the ground level though as I'm sure enforcement will be very uneven and NYC has stockpiled more than a little plastic litter around.
As it's a state ban, hopefully there'll be less garbage floating down the Hudson.
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