One of my many loyal blog followers came up with a great suggested topic the other day. That I should blog about "the great garbage bag rip off'' ... so here it is Russ.
For many years it has been recognized that dumping plastic in land fills (or anywhere else for that matter) is bad, very bad. The damn stuff unfortunately does not biodegrade (a big word for rot). Yet we have persisted in placing our garbage in plastic bags for convenient disposal.
Recently most stores who used to place our groceries in plastic bags at the check out, for our and their handling convenience, stopped doing so in the name of 'the environment'. And who dares argue against protecting the environment? But nearly everyone, previously re-used their plastic grocery bags for garbage, didn't they? Remarkably convenient and sensible that was too, don't you think?
Then the light bulb sprang to life, either at the plastic bag manufacturers' plants, or at the grocery stores head offices, probably both, but it doesn't matter which. They suddenly started refusing to pack our groceries into these hereto free reusable containers, and started instead selling us fancy expensive fabric bags (thoughtfully adorned with their stores' advertising) in which to transport their expensive merchandise to our homes.
So what do we do now with our garbage? Well, of course, we buy bright, shiny, new plastic bags at 20 to 40 cents a pop in these very same stores, to put our waste in before dumping it as usual at the curb on garbage pick-up day. Mind you, if you happen to feel particularly environmentally conscientious, you can purchase the compostable (another big word for rotting) plastic bags at 70 cents each. Wow, what a deal.
Caching, caching. $ $ $. Brilliant plan don't you think?
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