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Banning plastic bags at grocery store checkouts. But still allowing the store to sell their plastic kitchen garbage bags, and policy to only pickup recycling i
by newsclues 3y ago
Banning plastic bags at grocery store checkouts. But still allowing the store to sell their plastic kitchen garbage bags, and policy to only pickup recycling if it’s in a clear plastic bag instead of the old reusable blue bins.
- kerrsclyde 3y agoAnd everything I buy from the store is encased in plastic (bananas! eggs! bread!).
- Simulacra 3y agoPlastic is probably the single greatest threat to our environment right now. Solve the plastic problem, and CO2, and other forms of carbon based pollution will come down.
- xtiansimon 3y ago> “Banning plastic bags at grocery store checkouts. But still allowing the store to sell their plastic kitchen garbage bags…” The ban should have economic effects somewhere in the supply chain. One hopes the economic data will help policymakers understand the effects of eliminating those kitchen garbage bags, and then craft the arguments that influence people to change their behavior—-in other words a move was made. Now we need the data.