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they make plastic bags to show plastic bags kill 
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05 Aug 2014, 3:29 pm
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05 Aug 2014, 10:37 pm
@Kiprobalhato: Congratulations for making the 1000th reply. 
06 Aug 2014, 2:27 am
yay!! ! 
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07 Aug 2014, 3:26 pm
08 Aug 2014, 1:14 pm
my city banned plastic bags! 
10 Aug 2014, 2:51 am
Kiprobalhato wrote:
my city banned plastic bags!
Enjoy your diseases.
Plastic = sanitary AND recyclable. Paper = recyclable. Reusable = harbinger of bacteria and disease...unless you are prepared to wash them in a disinfecting agent between each and every use.
10 Aug 2014, 3:08 am
zer0netgain wrote:
Plastic = sanitary AND recyclable. Paper = recyclable. Reusable = harbinger of bacteria and disease...unless you are prepared to wash them in a disinfecting agent between each and every use.
Paper is used by forensic teams to prevent contamination. Plastic isn't that sanitary, by virtue of being partially chemically resistant, not not totally permeable, it can provide an excellent incubator, in the sweaty reservoirs.
Is there any evidence that use of "bag for life", lead to higher instance of diseases on the macro level?
Personally I think that paper bags suck when it rains, and you have wine/cider/beer bottles
However as I understand they are not banning recyclable plastic, they are banning plastic bag that are dispensed at retailers.
My suggestion is not ban them all together, but make them tougher and more resilient, then charge for them. I have a favourate one, I go there pay some pennies, then shop with those bags all over the place. Of course they are not totally "for life", but they last longer than the crap you usually get.
I think the strategy in the UK, where there was pressure on big retail outlet to reduce wastage with bag has started to work, a total ban wasn't necessary. Now we have to put the pressure on for the packaging side.
BTW this is about waste in general, you don't have to be a typical green.
10 Aug 2014, 11:05 am
zer0netgain wrote:
Kiprobalhato wrote:
my city banned plastic bags!
Enjoy your diseases.
Plastic = sanitary AND recyclable. Paper = recyclable. Reusable = harbinger of bacteria and disease...unless you are prepared to wash them in a disinfecting agent between each and every use.
Maybe plastic would be ok if idgits didn't toss their bags out.I's no big deal to toss reusable bags in the laundry,if your not buying meat or other foods that ooze you will most likely get more germs off the handle of the grocery cart,toddlers are always snotting and sneezing on that and no telling where people have put their hands.
