The Los Angeles City Council voted Tuesday to ban plastic carryout bags in the city’s supermarkets and stores by July 2010

I know Sustainability Manager Nicole Woodman, and other members of Flagstaff’s City Council have been working on a similar plastic bag ban. It needs to go much further than plastic bags though. In my book, if it can’t be recycled or reused, it should never be mass produced. I wrote about all this before.
Here is a good cnn piece on the affects of plastic bag usage world-wide.

Meanwhile insane groups like savetheplasticbag.com are popping up in response. Check out this stupid cartoon.

Acrylamides? I thought we were talking about plastic bags. I don’t think our food should have carcinogens either, but this kind of ‘bait and switch’ argument attempts to make one bad idea irrelevant in comparison to worse ideas. It’s an easy way for one to take the focus off of someone else’s argument and then move the conversation somewhere else. AND it’s pretty demeaning to see caffeine on the same evil plane as cancer-causing agents in our food and water.

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