Yesterday was earth day. I'd almost forgotten to mark the occasion, but I managed to celebrate by letting my cats Clarence add compost to Mrs. McCleary's garden.
I know we're all going green (trying to, or pretending to). If it's not trying to "borrow" carbon credits from developing nations, it's trying to eliminate the evils of the plastic grocery bag. Now don't get me wrong, I think we all have our part to play in being aware of our poor besieged planet. But what the heck is driving the banning of the plastic bag?
You know who I think is behind this "movement"? The marketing folks at the Glad Products Company that's who. Somehow they've put together a street team of malleable "green thinking" tree hugger types whose sole mission in life is to save the planet by banning plastic bags.
Why?
Because the plastic bags end up in landfills, and that's bad.
Very bad.
You know what? They're right, those bags end up in the trash - you want to know why? Because people, and there are millions and millions of us, use those bags as garbage bags. That's right, we actually use one of the principles of recycling. We re-use.
All that's happened by my local store going "green" and not using plastic grocery bags is that I now have to buy my plastic bags to put into the landfill, instead of getting them "free"with my groceries.
Who makes the trash bags of choice?
Glad.
A coincidence? I don't think so.
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