I am a terrible grocery planner, and as I do not keep reusable bags in my vehicle I ither am forced to use the crappy paper bags at Giants or buying the re-useable once of which I must have 30 by now. I am not a fan of plastic bags because of what they do to wildlife and our beautiful Maryland landscape.Can someone explain to me why buying reusable grocery and produce bags is such a terrible thing?
Or, why single use plastic bags are so important?
Because it's not the job of government to micromanage basic decisions for us. This is also a huge inconvenience to the public and regressive tax that does nothing for the environment. The county council and Pittman are actively trying to cut down forests to build high density housing, but God forbid we use plastic bags... well unless you're in Annapolis. The city on the water gets a pass.Can someone explain to me why buying reusable grocery and produce bags is such a terrible thing?
Or, why single use plastic bags are so important?
Now I understand!!!! After the the county council and Pittman cut down the forests they get paid to turn the trees into paper bags. Genius idea!Because it's not the job of government to micromanage basic decisions for us. This is also a huge inconvenience to the public and regressive tax that does nothing for the environment. The county council and Pittman are actively trying to cut down forests to build high density housing, but God forbid we use plastic bags... well unless you're in Annapolis. The city on the water gets a pass.
I've also heard the county's recycling program has shut down and they're essentially just tossing the collected recycling in the trash, but don't know how much validity that has.
Can someone explain to me why buying reusable grocery and produce bags is such a terrible thing?
Or, why single use plastic bags are so important?
Why not keep the bags in your car? That's what I do.I am a terrible grocery planner, and as I do not keep reusable bags in my vehicle
Ty for your response. Most of my generation is fine using reusable bags from my experience. I share the sentiment of micromanaging.Because it's not the job of government to micromanage basic decisions for us
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-Rob
Basically all major grocery stores participate with trex in recycling bags. They had collection bins at the front of most stores. To make a difference, the government could have partnered with these businesses to give discount coupons for recycling bags.Why not keep the bags in your car? That's what I do.
Ty for your response. Most of my generation is fine using reusable bags from my experience. I share the sentiment of micromanaging.
However, when plastic waste becomes an issue of plastic ending up everywhere, all over...I think we can use paper or buy reusable instead of continuing to pollute. I don't see it as a micro issue. I understand why people don't like it, to a point.
Btw the bags are extremely hard to recycle. I haven't heard about recycling shutting down but the bags have always been a serious issue.
As for littering, I would whole heartedly support any increase to existing penalties or enforcement efforts to reduce that filth. Or the trash they leave strewn about.
-Rob
Here ya go:Someone posted who voted for this but I can't find it. Please re-post so we can can ridicule them publicly.
You wouldn't think MDS would attract statists.Can someone explain to me why buying reusable grocery and produce bags is such a terrible thing?
Or, why single use plastic bags are so important?
Yup. I've grabbed trash bags and cleaned the side of some roads before. It is mind-blowing how much trash can be collected on just some random 100 yard stretch of side county road. I support tossing people that litter in stocks and having the public launch rotten veggies at them.****Most of the people seemingly doing the littering, as evidenced by the look of the neighborhoods they live in, don't have two nickels or a pot to piss in. They don't care, and just throw their trash out on the street, out of their car windows, after eating fast food, and they complain when their OWN mess is not being cleaned up by others.
I've volunteered on multiple occasions with others in litter cleanup drives and it is unbelievable to me how people can live like this and seemingly continue to do the same thing over and over again. The argument goes "Nobody is teaching them proper behavior" - ******** - they see *cleaner* neighborhoods, in nicer locations and see the people in those neighborhoods not just throwing their garbage out on the street and living in filth. Slobs, and generally all around losers in life because they lack discipline and continue to make really really bad decisions in their lives and complaining that the best things in life are not just merely given to them for just existing, and other people have more than they do... Duh - they *earned* it.
It doesn't cost money to clean up your living area - some time, some effort - but the poverty thing is an excuse to essentially excuse poor behavior and just let it slide IMO. If some people weren't slobs and just chucking their bags and other stuff out on the street - pretty sure we wouldn't have these bag bans in place. So most everyone now has to suffer because a small segment of the population just can't be bothered to live in a civilized manner and they just throw litter/trash out on the streets and elsewhere and just don't care to change. People like that suck.
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"single use" bags are anything but single use. They are perfect for bathroom trash. Reusing them that way cuts down on the need to manufacture, transport, etc purpose-made bathroom liners.Can someone explain to me why buying reusable grocery and produce bags is such a terrible thing?
Or, why single use plastic bags are so important?
Recycling is mostly BS. Paper and metals are the only things reliably recycled but even then there are exceptions. Examples cardboard coated with wax (fruit boxes) or contaminated with grease/oil (pizza boxes) cannot be recycled.I've also heard the county's recycling program has shut down and they're essentially just tossing the collected recycling in the trash, but don't know how much validity that has.
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...not sure the bag ban is having the desired impact... lolz
I’m a terrible grocery planner.Why not keep the bags in your car? That's what I do.