San Francisco is a vanguard city in myriad ways. And the latest from this environmentally minded city makes me ecstatic in the hopes that the rest of the country will follow suit: a proposed ban on plastic grocery bags. Not only do these petroleum-based bags use up precious resources, they also cannot be recycled. They end up in the landfill to outlive our children’s children. According to the article, the bags have already been outlawed in South Africa, Taiwan and Bangladesh. Ireland imposes a plastic-bag tax. Will it lead to people bringing their own reusable cloth bags, or to the use of recyclable paper bags? That remains to be seen, but man, what a great idea to reduce the use of these eyesores.
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