highporkroller t1_jeab6g4 wrote on March 30, 2023 at 3:48 PM

Reply to comment by RafeDangerous in Plastic bag ban helped cut Shore trash: New report notes drop in bags, straws, paper pieces found in annual cleanup by rollotomasi07071

I get it. I really do and don’t think it’s a bad idea. But why start (and stop) with shopping bags? There is so much more plastic waste on the 20 things you put into one shopping bag. Or your Starbucks coffee cup/lids that they aren’t mandating you use reusable for.

RafeDangerous t1_jeafgak wrote on March 30, 2023 at 4:16 PM

oh absolutely, overpackaging is ridiculous. One of the ones I find most stupidly ironic is Impossible Burgers. They go on about how environmentally friendly they are as opposed to actual meat, which is probably true, but then it's in this absurd plastic blister-pack thing...there's got to be a better way to do that. I guess they have to start somewhere with this stuff though, and shopping bags are probably one of the easiest (comparatively) things to go after.