Battle of the Bags

Battle of the Bags

I have spoke before about the battle of the bags, which pits plastic bag manufacturers against reusable bag makers. It appears that plastic bags are losing the battle. There are now 132 cities and counties around the country that have implemented anti-plastic bag legislation. While that still leaves roughly 100 billion plastic bags still being used by consumers on a yearly basis, it doesn’t seem far fetched to say that that number will begin to fall rapidly as even more communities make the decision to go plastic bag-less. And before you slap me with the recycling litany, remember, the majority of plastic bags never make it into the recycle bin. In fact, most plastic bags end up as a blight on the landscape - getting stuck in trees and annoyingly flapping away in the breeze, not to mention threatening wildlife. Plastic bags haven’t really been on the shopping scene all that long. Introduced in the seventies plastic bags were not quickly embraced by customers or checkout clerks, but because they were cheaper and took up less space plastic bags prevailed. Skip down the road a few short decades and now even their low cost can’t save them for long.  
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