I’m old enough to remember when plastic bags became available in grocery stores. People didn’t trust them, so they had displays at the entrances showing the bags holding heavy things, like several two liter soda bottles. They pushed so hard for plastic, saying that it would save the environment, and now they’re pushing even harder saying it’ll destroy the environment.
They are better for the environment in some ways. They’re just worse in others and it’s plausible that wasn’t apparent until they got into the environment at scale
How hard was that? People lived fine before plastic bags. I want to see the end of all single-use plastics outside of a medical setting.
I’m old enough to remember when plastic bags became available in grocery stores. People didn’t trust them, so they had displays at the entrances showing the bags holding heavy things, like several two liter soda bottles. They pushed so hard for plastic, saying that it would save the environment, and now they’re pushing even harder saying it’ll destroy the environment.
They are better for the environment in some ways. They’re just worse in others and it’s plausible that wasn’t apparent until they got into the environment at scale
Oh I’m not alleging a conspiracy. I doubt they knew about micro-plastics, or sea turtles thinking the bags are jellyfish.