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By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 21:16:00 +0000

ksvnah64d —

Thanks for doing your part to keep Red Herring off the endangered species list. Pseudo-Scientists for hire lambasting one instance of misrepresented research DOES NOT negate the very real damage plastic bags do to sea birds and sea mammals. Don’t let one bad apple spoil the barrel of valid facts.

By: Jen

Jen — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 16:06:00 +0000

This is more or less OT but it’s about bags so I guess it’ll work. The other day on the news I saw that the yearly beach clean-up thing is coming up and they were saying that if you don’t actually want to go clean up the beaches a $10 donation would purchase so many plastic bags for others to use to put trash in. Going through my little old head ever since has been “why, oh why don’t they have the volunteers bring some of the horde of plastic bags everyone has at home and use them?”. I guess it looks more evirnomentally friendly to spend lord knows how much on new matching bags proclaiming what they are doing. Oh well.

By: Jessica at Bwlchyrhyd

Jessica at Bwlchyrhyd — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 10:57:00 +0000

ksvnah64d –

Maybe the specific claim that plastic bags are killing 100,000 animals and a million seabirds every year are false, but that doesn’t mean that banning them isn’t a good thing — there’s plenty else that’s wrong with plastic bags…

By: ksvnah64d

ksvnah64d — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 06:07:00 +0000

Like most here, I cannot stand plastic bags, hate em, hate em. Now I see this on Fox News, Plastic Bags Evil, Think Again, Some Scientist Say dutifully stolen by myself and posted here: http://ksvn.blogspot.com/2008/03/plastic-bags-evil-think-again-some.html

My wife and I have bought over 20 canvas bags and if we run out shopping for groceries, we just buy another reusable bag instead of paper or the recyclable plastic bags now offered. My beef with all this is..

Why do the enviros continue to run their mouths off when their data simply isn’t factual. First is was the Ozone Layer, recently the Global Warming debate completely went South on enviros due to more emotion and politically or monetarily biased “scientific” research, now plastic bags haven’t been causing the beaching of hundreds of whales off the coastline.
It’s really frustrating for someone who lives pretty greenly and doesn’t believe in man made Global Warming but thinks taking care of the Earth is important as well as fiscally intelligent to have to endure crisis after crisis from enviros who are simply just too dang lazy to actually do appropriate research.
No wonder most people don’t believe.

By: 500 or less

500 or less — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 04:59:00 +0000

I hadn’t been to COSTCO in a while, but I recently went and only bought two items — no, they weren’t mattresses, or a fridge. I was already for my “Thanks, I don’t need a bag” routine at check out, but nope, they stacked those suckers up at the end of the checkout, and slapped the receipt on top. Have a nice day, indeed. Of course, I had forgotten to bring my own bag, but two good hands worked just fine.

By: Beany

Beany — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 13:04:00 +0000

It took me awhile to read all the linked stories…but I’m done.

Cooking every meal from scratch and not using plastic bags for grocery shopping has really cut down on our garbage and recycling output. But now I have another problem to contend with which is trash on the street which is usually plastic clogging up drains. The city is sucky when it comes to cleaning up poorer neighborhoods and the garbage truck winds up trashing the neighborhood on trash pickup days. So my husband and I go around picking up the trash left behind by inconsiderate people and stick them in plastic newspaper bags. I think alot of these items that I pick up from the street could be recycled…but I would have to wash it and clean it and increase my water bill – which I am not willing to do yet.

By: Hep Joan

Hep Joan — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 06:53:00 +0000

I am gulity of using plastic bags as well. But life just seems impossible without them. Our city corporation tried banning them once but failed miserably. Nowadays, we have temporary plastica bans lasting 2-3 months, every now and then. However, I think it is always smart to reuse your plastic bags.
I keep them neatly folded under my matress. You can always carry one of them in your purse if it is well folded. I usually reduse it to about 25% of its size. So next time you go to the supermarket, you don’t have to use a new one. It can be plastic vs. plastic!

By: Melissa

Melissa — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 19:06:00 +0000

I live in a place where there are not many “plastic conscience” people. When I take my reuseable bags in the (big chain)grocery store, I usually get attitude from the cashier. It may be because I buy a week’s worth of groceries (for 4 people, that’s alot) and use almost a dozen cloth bags. But I figure: -15 plastic bags a week = -60 bags a month= -720 plastic bags a year. That’s worth putting up with a sigh or two! Besides, I have befriended a few nice cashiers and they always ask about my cloth bags. Spread the word!!

By: Gift Horse

Gift Horse — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 00:16:00 +0000

Hey-- cool site and great cause! We don't use plastic bags either-- haven't for over 10 years. It is pretty much the easiest thing anyone can do to reduce waste and save trees/ oil. Just keep a bunch of fabric bags in the car/ office, etc, and you're set!

Anyway, I hope you will check out our site

operationgifthorse.blogspot.com

just another small effort to make things better... =)