This is virtue signaling, par excellence.
Mike Sedon’s a good guy. But he’s dead wrong here.
Bulky paper bags were largely replaced by plastic bags decades ago because of the incredible percentage the paper bags took up of the total volume of landfill space and the fact that as soon as they were covered over with dirt or additonal garbage, they did not degrade at all but were found to be perfectly archeologically preserved, decade after decade. This is due to the total absence of oxygen or sunlight within the landfill heap. From that discovery it was a perfectly logical step to take to replace paper bags with the gossamer-thin plastic bags which, by comparison, now take up a vanishingly small percentage of the total volume of space in modern landfill heaps.
Ours is not a third world country, from which 95 percent of the plastic that pollutes the world’s oceans originates. We handle our garbage, trash and other refuse responsibly. Don’t let the SJWs/NPCs persuade you otherwise with their emotional appeals. The decision to switch from paper to plastic was a sound one at the time, and remains the superior choice now.
To advocate a new ban plastic bags is therefore the true luddite position. A decision to vote in favor of such a ban at this juncture is necessarily based on emotion unreachable by historical facts and important practical and scientific considerations, plus a penchant proudly to parade past the populace one’s pretty politically progressive peacock plumage.
Man-made climate change is an enormous hoax designed to justify global depopulation efforts. Ridgewood’s Village Council should not participate in any way.
The faulty premise here is that plastic bags end up in landfills. Most do but of the approximately 100 billion plastic bags used annually in the US, a material percentage are not properly disposed of and much of that percentage finds its way eventually into waterways and then into the ocean. Get rid of them now.
“The faulty premise here is that plastic bags end up in landfills. Most do but of the approximately 100 billion plastic bags used annually in the US, a material percentage are not properly disposed of and much of that percentage finds its way eventually into waterways and then into the ocean. Get rid of them now.”
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What percentage is a “material percentage” to you?
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Please quantify how much is “much of that percentage”. Are we really talking about a large amount, or is any amount a moral affront to you that justifies enacting a total Orwellian ban on the modern marvel of capacious, hygeinic, lightweight and strong plastic bags?
The faulty premise here is that these laws are meant to improve anything (the climate, peoples’ standard of living, the environment, etc. etc…).
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They ARE meant to control people, generate revenue and solidify power.
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Anyone who thinks otherwise is a fool.
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This did not actually happen yet did it? Is it just a foolish proposal at this point?
How about the commentators read the proposed ordinance before posting????
Doggy Poop is great fertilizer for your neighbors lawn.
Ireland has had the “no plastic bag” ban for many years. If you were a visitor, you were welcome to pay for a bag. I don’t remember if the going price was 5 cents or 25 cents but the idea certainly worked. I guess, after the law is passed, we will eventually “remember” our bags. Mine always seem to be in the car. Travell had a great recycling program in that they sent their bags to become plastic benches. They were the senders of the most for at least 2 years and have two playground benches to show for it. I don’t know the status of the program now.
The vast majority of plastic in the world’s oceans originates from Asian countries, mostly China, The Philippines, Vietnam, Malaysia, and Indonesia. While having these anti plastic programs might make the tree huggers feel better, it’s effect on the world’s oceans is infinitesimal.
Plastic….. In any form will not degrade in a landfill. All plastic should be banned but that would be too radical so we need to start somewhere. This is well understood and several NJ towns have already passed this ordinance as well as all of Rockland county. We all need to do our share but turn a blind eye. #beresponsible
Hey Taxpayer:
PAPER…”In any form will not degrade in a landfill.”
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No commonly-used bag material ends up degrading after being covered over in a landfill. Paper, plastic, whatever–it just piles up, preserved for eternity or until an archeologist digs it up!
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So why make this (whether it degrades in a landfill) the criteria of whether to ban or allow the use of this or that bagging material?
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Down deep, do you simply want people to keep using the same grocery bag, of whatever material construction, over and over again, until it is so bacteria ridden that it stinks, or until it catastrophically fails/degrades from weight and stress, and dumps two dozen raw eggs in their driveway?
Before you drop your eggs… You might want to think about cleaning anything that might have bacteria not just throw it out to a landfill unless.. Hmm now we are wondering, you do know how to clean right