Here is some additional info: NJ banned paper bags, and at the same time, the state banned plastic bags! You may be asking why. It’s because many stores knew that if plastic was banned, people would ask for paper bags. But the problem is that paper bags are more expensive than plastic and take up more space. So, lobbyists worked with state politicians to ban paper bags at the same time in order to make sure that politically connected businesses across the state would not end up paying the price for New Jersey’s plastic bag ban. Instead, the cost fell on consumers in the state.
@danpenner79
5 ай бұрын
and washington state. only it cost 8 cents per plastic bag.
@giraffezebra2698
5 ай бұрын
Paper bags take up more space on the trucks that deliver them to the stores, causing more emissions as well. In NY I can’t use plastic for my groceries, but they use them in the pharmacy. If I order curbside pickup from Walmart grocery they place every refrigerated and frozen item in its own separate plastic bag. Plus I would reuse my plastic for garbage bags, craft projects for the grandkids, dog waste, and other things. Way to go Dems!
@BbTenn
5 ай бұрын
We still have plastic bags in Tennessee. Everyone I know uses them at least twice, whether for garbage bags, animal waste, crafts, or as carry bags for various items.
@barbarakiewe2870
5 ай бұрын
Paper bags are inferior in every way. Very few paper bags have handles (makes the bags more expensive), so it takes more cycles to unload the groceries when I get home. That makes them more inconvenient and I'm sure in some respect more wasteful. And if they get wet... game over, your groceries are on the ground! Unless the bags are composted, paper bags end up in the same landfills as plastic bags and actually take up more volume in the landfill. What's most disturbing is that instead of learning from California's failure, New Jersey has gone and replicated all the same mistakes.
@BbTenn
5 ай бұрын
@@barbarakiewe2870 Politicians find it more to their benefit to sound virtuous than to actually be virtuous.
@TheNutmegStitcher
5 ай бұрын
Yet everything you buy in the grocery store is packaged in plastic. Genius solution.
@catsupchutney
5 ай бұрын
Those plastics don't wind up covering trees surrounding landfills.
@donnzmcmichael7450
5 ай бұрын
If the food was not in plastic it would not keep and all the people in the cities would starve.
@TheCharleseye
5 ай бұрын
@@donnzmcmichael7450 That sounds more like a solution than a problem.
@FranciscaAVior
5 ай бұрын
What about disposable razors and disposable diapers?
@1969coolchange
5 ай бұрын
And why is that so you suppose?
@burmy1552
5 ай бұрын
Tried to take about 80 fluorescent bulbs to the hazardous waste material facility in San Joaquin a few years back. They turned me away and gave me a phone number to call to schedule an appointment since I had so many. I called that number loads of times and left messages and nobody ever returned the calls. I had to take the bulbs back to the business. I've seen loads of bulbs in trash cans ever since. California is the gold medalist of the dumb Olympics.
@sunayakong8537
5 ай бұрын
I like that term gold medalist in dumb. 🤣
@mrow7598
5 ай бұрын
Mercury in fluorescents which is why they don't want to take that many. As you get to a certain limit and its then labeled as hazardous waste. I think you might have broken a few laws driving around with that many with out proper licensing...
@Customerbuilder
5 ай бұрын
Same for batteries. If retailers sell them, it's the law for them to dispose of them properly. They just get thrown away.
@Hay-x7p
5 ай бұрын
You should have given them the number they WOULD take and make multiple trips.
@michaelmacgeorge1082
5 ай бұрын
@@Hay-x7pWhen the same happened to me, I gave them the allowed number and told them the rest were going in the garbage. They took all of them.
@TPaine1776
5 ай бұрын
In Colorado people voted no to this yet the useless governor forced it anyway.
@Flussig1
5 ай бұрын
Here in lies the problem. Ca. voted FOR capital punishment but the Gov. went against the will of the people and said no.
@martinnormand7458
5 ай бұрын
@@Flussig1Yep! Research CA Prop 187 from 1994. Passed with 59% for it but later declared “Unconstitutional” and voided by one judge!!!
@mustangracer5124
5 ай бұрын
The cancer is spreading fast and the surgeon is dead.
@TheRoamingHazard
5 ай бұрын
Forcing something to go forward that was voted down is terrible. But just because voters approved something doesn’t mean it should proceed. Look at all the stupid unconstitutional gun laws CA voters approved.
@zerotodona1495
5 ай бұрын
They do that a lot in CA. Force votes.
@courtjester1135
5 ай бұрын
Remember being asked 'paper or plastic?' when checking out? We moved to plastic to 'save the trees'. I thought the whole idea was to move to renewable resources. (which can also be recycled)
@NarwahlGaming
5 ай бұрын
That always gets me. There are actual tree farms where they grow fast growing trees specifically for paper products. They're not cutting down the rainforest for a toothpick.
@bwhog
5 ай бұрын
The solutions the so-called environmentalists propose are _invariably_ worse than the problem they purport to be trying to solve.
@Whitehorse_crimefighter
5 ай бұрын
Save the trees was an oil company scam to sell plastic bags and everyone took a bite
@christianadechaeney1831
5 ай бұрын
They banned “single use” plastic bags in Australia too. Just about everyone used these bags to line kitchen tidies as they were a perfect fit for most little bins. They forced supermarkets to use the heavier plastic bags, the ones where the handles rip off, and they don’t fit the kitchen bins. Same result here. The new, heavier bags are thrown out AND we now buy plastic bin liners, more than doubling plastic waste. Plus they charge for all bags. Some bright spark reintroduced the old style paper bags ( the ones we couldn’t have anymore because “save the trees” ). The trouble is that they reduced the size & strength of these paper bags so they can’t fit many groceries & they fall apart before you carry your shopping into the house. We are governed, no, ruled, by idiots.
@sagatuppercut2960
5 ай бұрын
So why do people vote for idiots instead of smart people?
@christinesmith3711
5 ай бұрын
Exactly, good in theory but in practicality made the problem worse.
@Robbedem
5 ай бұрын
Maybe stop throwing away the heavier bags and reuse them as intended? Will save you money and reduce plastic waste.
@giraffezebra2698
5 ай бұрын
Pretty sure these high ranking politicians have other people do the grocery shopping for them. They have no clue.
@LizRealGirlBeauty
5 ай бұрын
Used them for a bunch of things, garbage bags was the last stop. And now yes, I have to buy bags to put in garbage cans, because the need didn't disappear with the ban. Target gives you "reusable" bags that rip, fall apart and don't repell liquids so they don't function as well. I'm sure whatever company is making them is getting a fortune for them.
@ccmuclamba
5 ай бұрын
CA is the king of unintended consequences
@juanito714ok
5 ай бұрын
and incapable of admitting error.
@NogardCodesmith
5 ай бұрын
"Unintended" Someone always profits from stupid (most) regulations... ...and it is nearly always those with close ties to the lawmakers.
@cherryleorrock8813
5 ай бұрын
@@NogardCodesmith 6
@kevintackett7564
5 ай бұрын
"INTENDED", there fixed it for you...
@mustang607
5 ай бұрын
Plastic bags bad. We banned plastic bags. We now we have more plastic trash? We double down.
@reddirtwalker8041
5 ай бұрын
The saddest part of this and most California policy failures is that it could easily be seen if only it was thought about for a second.
@robertschmidt9296
5 ай бұрын
The thought process is a foriegn concept for a liberal.
@AlexAnder-rv1gu
5 ай бұрын
Unfortunately, they probably based their decision off of places like Korea, where similar laws were enacted. However, in Korea, they actually thought the whole process through, so you have an option at the checkout counter: no bag, or pay for a heavy duty bag (which Koreans actually reuse) or pay a few cents for a "garbage bag" - which is the old plastic bag (all household garbage in Korea must be placed in these bags, rather than large generic black bags, so there is an automatic second use for single-use bags, and also this prohibits people from using heavy duty bags as garbage bags, AND allows people to continue to have access to the original, practical, plastic bag).
@cdstoc
5 ай бұрын
They were seen by many people, the lawmakers don't care and the media supports the lawmakers.
@jeremyjohnson2129
5 ай бұрын
It was thought about ... thought about by the people who were going to profit from it. It was then sold to a giant group of people who have been trained to not think beyond what they told.
@NiaLaLa_V
5 ай бұрын
@@jeremyjohnson2129 Yes. You're called carnists and you are the target audience for all of this nonsense. Because you keep avoiding the data against your meat and dairy.
@rsacchi100
5 ай бұрын
The ironic thing is the non-reusable plastic bags are often reused.
@curtisthomas-eg4th
5 ай бұрын
Obviously, most are not.
@flagmichael
4 ай бұрын
@@curtisthomas-eg4th Here in Flagstaff they are not banned, so we get groceries in them all the time. When we take the groceries home we put the bags in the "bag bag" - a garbage bag we keep the food bags in. Much of the time the bag bag is empty; we use the food bags for holding yard clean-up, stinky or goopy garbage before tossing it in the main garbage bag, and so on. We have to keep in mind that there is no way of knowing how many bags skip the reuse cycle but I can assure anybody who cares that none of our garbage bags make it from the landfill, 7000 feet down the heavily forested mountain, across the 977 miles from here to the Gulf of Mexico (the nearest ocean.) I have occasionally taken household trash to the landfill, where I unload a few dozen feet from where the sanitation trucks unload. I have never seen a loose plastic food bag there; just garbage and trash bags full of garbage and trash that will be covered by dirt by sundown.
@Demonslayer-dt9dl
4 ай бұрын
@curtisthomas-eg4th they are reused more often than reusable ones since they take up no space. They are often used as trash bags and are used to carry things other than groceries.
@nchintalapani
5 ай бұрын
I remember as a kid where the grocery stores used unbleached paper bags, the ECO warriors crusaded till they were replaced with plastic to save the forests. Now we are back to paper at an enormous cost. The government truly cannot make anything work.
@DiogenestheGreek
5 ай бұрын
Government is an inefficient monopoly, motivated by politics.
@nutbastard
5 ай бұрын
It's especially dumb because wood/plants are renewable and, minus production expenditures/emissions, carbon neutral or in some cases carbon negative.
@marcussinclaire4890
5 ай бұрын
I've been bring this up.too!! What a joke!!
@Lzzeecrkrs
5 ай бұрын
Those paper bags had many more ways they could be reused than the plastic ones. I think they were also recycled from industry paper waste in many cases (not fresh trees from rainforests as school led us to believe) as brown paper bags don’t need to be pretty. A lot of grandparents had a bucket of crayons near where they stored their paper bags to keep kids busy during visits.
@carlcushmanhybels8159
5 ай бұрын
@@Lzzeecrkrs And paper itself is not made from embattled/ severely endangered Old Growth Timber or Rain Forests: Paper is made from abundant pulp soft wood trees. There's no shortage of pulp wood.
@arkwill14
5 ай бұрын
We're doing the same thing in Colorado. I myself still need plastic bags for pet waste and other uses around the house though. So when I run out I will now have to buy some. But I will still be putting the EXACT same number of plastic bags in the landfill. The difference now is: 1. They will all now be single-use bags (With the old shopping plastic bags -- I never threw one away without re-using it). 2. They will probably be a heavier ply since those are the only ones that they sell - so more plastic goes in the landfill and it takes longer to break down. 3. The store bought ones will have their own packaging -- so more waste there (+ the extra trucking pollution to distribute them to stores). In other words, this new law does nothing to make me more "green". Rather the opposite actually.
@colorocko1
5 ай бұрын
You got that right! Totally agree with you.
@jercasgav
5 ай бұрын
I live in Colorado too...just went online and bought a bunch of normal store plastic bags from a retailer that sells restaurant supplies, and it was way cheaper, like a couple few cents a bag instead of 10 cents a bag like they charge now. They can kiss my keester, I am still just using the exact same bags because I always did use to reuse them for other purposes anywhoo.
@Milesco
5 ай бұрын
@@jercasgav I'm in California and I do the same thing, except I buy wastebasket liners from an online office supply store. So my total plastic consumption is not reduced at all.
@satansshadow2163
5 ай бұрын
And for a while grocery stores in Colorado the people stole shopping baskets
@rebeccaprange9310
5 ай бұрын
You paid for the plastic grocery bags, too. The cost was factored into the cost of your food. There are biodegradable bags for pet poo available.
@uncralph4354
5 ай бұрын
Being an old fart, and originally from California, many of us tried to tell the ecos and their sycophants in the state house this was going to not work and the names we were called were, creative as well as foul. Now who is the idiot?
@joelmartin2549
5 ай бұрын
You because they never intended to “save the ocean” or whatever they said. This was always about corporate profits.
@Kr0n1kTh3Kl0wn
5 ай бұрын
The people who vote Democrat. They're the idiot.
@jopestus
5 ай бұрын
They will still call you as such. You are wrong to them and always have been.
@johnnyvanes8352
5 ай бұрын
Gavin newsom!!!!
@colorocko1
5 ай бұрын
More about power to the left and control of the sheep. @@joelmartin2549
@henkvandenbergh1301
5 ай бұрын
Colorado here where plastic bags are outlawed. I was at Home Depot last month, bought 5 parts I needed for my sprinkler system. Each part came in its own plastic bag. The teenagers at the checkout had no clue as to what I meant saying "5 plastic bags that I don't have to pay for".
@MyHam-os4bq
5 ай бұрын
I seriously do not understand the point that people are trying to make with comments like this. Yes, most things at the store are still packaged in plastic. So we might as well keep using even more plastic in the form of bags? Truly, I don’t understand the logic haha. Either ban none of the plastic, or all of it, but definitely do not ban only SOME of it…is that the point you’re trying to make?
@robertheitner1534
5 ай бұрын
I am in New Jersey. If you do not have plastic shopping bags from grocery stores to throw various waste, junk, used kitty litter away in, you end up using plastic garbage bags, which are much heavier and have way more plastic in them. That is the reality.
@colorocko1
5 ай бұрын
unbelievable, go figure
@dawnelder9046
5 ай бұрын
I live in Canada and that is exactly what has happened.
@pelqel9893
5 ай бұрын
That's what I do with ours. I save every intact/hole-free one to re-use for waste; I recycle the damaged ones.
@rthomas1031
5 ай бұрын
Im in NJ too, and there was no such thing as a “single use” plastic bag unless it ripped on the way home from the store. We reused them for all sorts of things- trash bags, lunch bags, etc etc etc.
@dylanb1918
5 ай бұрын
@@rthomas1031Exactly right, I'm from NJ as well, and we STILL use plastic bags that we have left from before the ban was enacted. Policies should be critiqued in terms of the incentives they create, NOT the goals they proclaim.
@TheRozylass
5 ай бұрын
I'm old enough to remember when plastic bags were going to be the salvation of our forests--no more cutting down trees to make paper bags. Yet paper bags are made from trees from tree farms that are sustainable, paper bags biodegrade, fit perfectly into kitchen trash cans, and could be used for book covers, and wrapping packages. Let's bring back paper bags!!
@thomabb
5 ай бұрын
I've been saying this for years.
@richardbeckenbaugh1805
5 ай бұрын
A paper bag these days is 49% plastic, 51% paper.
@TAMERAPalmer-Rendon
5 ай бұрын
Walmart has...just cracks me up.
@nolegirl4god
5 ай бұрын
Then the lobbyists for plastics lose.
@annaalva2320
5 ай бұрын
I hate paper bags. They tear, they leak, they make terrible trash bags and they take up a ton of space. I spend extra money to buy plastic and I use them as trash bags. And since they are made better now, I don't have to double bag everything anymore. And they make great bags to put stinky diapers in or pick up poop.
@HyperKilljoy112
5 ай бұрын
I worked at a Fast food restaurant in San Francisco. It’s a famous Filipino fusion restaurant too. One of my biggest issue as the Cashier and Shift Lead was having to charge customers 10 cents for a plastic bag, then soon to be 25 cents, for a plastic reusable bag. You would think that consumers would be wise and responsible with their trash after they’ve finished eating. The reality is that most of these customers are just soo full of it to even care.
@rogerwagner6940
5 ай бұрын
If they cared about the cost, they wouldn't go to a take away shop.
@dsherman9438
5 ай бұрын
Nobody has ever really cared. I see people of all ages toss fast food trash out the windows of their cars, as well as people waling away from convenience store toss their crap on the ground, and it's been that way since the "Give a hoot, don't pollute" days of the 70s. If you talk to these same people they are all in "great support" of being green and go on and on about how plastic pollution is destroying the planet, yet they are the worst offenders when it comes to littering. In 2009 I was in college. I was in late 40s at the time. There were three cans. Paper, Plastic & Glass, and Garbage. About 85% of the people who would put stuff in the right cans were people who were 40+. 99.9% of those who couldn't be bothered to choose the right can were 18 to 30 or so. Funny how those who claimed to be the greenest and who would bully others were the biggest offenders.
@HyperKilljoy112
5 ай бұрын
@@dsherman9438 it pains me to be part of the age demographic, that you described, and how negligible my generation can be when it comes to polluting. To add on to that I wanna say that nowadays it even stems towards kids in middle school, when they start going through puberty. Most teens at that stage already start spitting gums and sticking it at places where they shouldn’t, they start being little rebels and take pride of their behavior. While I observe other people’s actions, I frown and always wonder about the how can we ever fix this situation, and the reality is that we can’t. We can’t because at the end of the day it’ll impact their freedom. Any attempt to rectify their behavior will be met with resistance. And in the age where people like to play the victim, it’s almost pointless to even attempt anything at all, Even with the failed leadership and legislature. The older I get the more frustrating I become. It’s not because of not being able to find happiness, it’s because someone is always trying to ruin my happiness. I’m only 25.
@neiltonks4627
5 ай бұрын
A charge for single use bags was introduced in the UK around the same time but it doesn’t seem to have caused the same issue here. People generally don’t buy new ‘re-usable’ bags every time they shop, they re-use the same ones over and again.
@longtom9021
5 ай бұрын
Absolutely, reducing single use bags does seem to work here in the UK, initially I was against it but have been proved wrong, there are a lot less old plastic bags blowing around the streets these days. Maybe in the US it's a throw away mindset that is the issue, especially if reusable bags are thrown away after just one use, it's not hard to keep a few reusable bags in the car ready for the next shopping trip.
@Cynthea_Lee
5 ай бұрын
@@longtom9021 More like we are just lazy, and forgetful. We don't bring the bags with us, thus we have to buy more, now we have piles and piles of them so we throw them away instead of unloading the groceries and then putting the bags bag in the car to actually reuse them. Most of us DID and DO on the other hand reuse those plastic bags in various ways from small trash bags, to carrying things from one location to the other, and just using them till they are no longer useful. (holes, tearing apart etc). Some of us even bag them in larger bags and remember to take THOSE to the store and put them in those barrels to be "recycled". But still can't seem to remember to bring those "reusable" bags to the store at all. I on the other hand if I am in a store like Aldi's that doesn't give out free bags, will simply collect boxes from around the store that are either empty or close to empty and take THOSE with me to carry my groceries home, then put those boxes in my recycling bin.
@longtom9021
5 ай бұрын
Hi Cynthea, I used to reuse the so-called single use bags too, that was a major reason I originally was against the idea of the reusable bags. I have to say I too threw away quite a few of the resuable bags until I got into the habit of actually reusing them. Haha it just looks like we folks just need a bit of time to get used to changes! It certainly has made a difference re the amount of rubbish blowing around the streets though ! 😁👍
@robertkarp2070
5 ай бұрын
California also charges extra for the plastic bags.
@cristinabutasimon9159
5 ай бұрын
So do many countries overseas. The charges are to discourage people from using plastic bags. Think ahead, have a bag in your car, on your bike....
@MarcDunivan
5 ай бұрын
@@cristinabutasimon9159 It did not have that desired "discouragement" effect in California.
@robertschmidt9296
5 ай бұрын
10 cents per bag. At least they were heavier duty than the ones that you hope will make it to your car before it rips. They quit charging for them during the plandemic because they didn't want contaminated bags in stores.
@stevesmith756
5 ай бұрын
Just go through self checkout and select 0 bags. I don’t ever pay
@nickbrutanna9973
5 ай бұрын
Lot of places do, nowadays. NY has places that do it.
@jeffbroders9781
5 ай бұрын
In Commifornia they passed a ban on single use plastics. You used to get a plastic straw in a paper wrapping, both of which were recyclable. Now you get a paper straw lined with Teflon in a plastic wrapping, and neither is recyclable.
@Want2cJesus
5 ай бұрын
We ran from Commifornia 9 years ago. What a sad ruined state. We call it Nazifornia too. Don't miss it a speck.
@TheGemar14
5 ай бұрын
@@Want2cJesus Ah yes, that famous state that is both communist and anti-communist simultaneously.
@MamaMOB
5 ай бұрын
@@TheGemar14how is California in any way anti-communist? They literally hosted the dictator of China.
@Kr0n1kTh3Kl0wn
5 ай бұрын
"PROGRESS"
@slofty
5 ай бұрын
@@Want2cJesus Which town?
@cptcurk192
5 ай бұрын
Chicago has a 7 cent tax on each and every bag used in the city. Not to mention a bottled water tax, a sugar tax, a cell phone data tax that no one seems to know about or even care about.
@bryan81584
5 ай бұрын
Some bullshit they wouldn't have stood for in 1776
@markdorn8873
5 ай бұрын
You will own nothing [because we took all your money] and you will be happy [because we won't let you dream of being anything else since we also control the media you consume].
@tongsllc
5 ай бұрын
When you pay your cell phone bill, they charge you EXTRA if you pay in person. They call it a convenience fee!
@mustangracer5124
5 ай бұрын
Lots of welfare and govt. employees to take care of.. keeping the blue in power.
@mikerilling6515
2 ай бұрын
When I was a kid, we had brown paper grocery bags and everybody loved them. We recycled them into all sorts of things not just wrapping paper and school. Textbook covers, but all sorts of projects. Then one day they told us that paper was terrible for the environment that we needed plastic We said we want so they said OK well we will offer and give you a choice Shortly they eliminated the paper which means there was no choice And this is how the so-called environmental group work They do not care about the environment. It’s all about controlling every possible aspect of your life.
@paranormalwheelers
5 ай бұрын
I’ve been saying this since it passed here in California 😮. Good to see it in a video
@sgraham4533
5 ай бұрын
It was a fake law. Not only do the new reusable bags not decompose, but the .10 cent a bag rule doesn’t even go to environmental causes. It goes directly to the retailers.
@MrClobbertime
5 ай бұрын
That just means that the law is working as intended. It was never about the environment, that was just used as the selling point.
@michaeld.3779
5 ай бұрын
Wrong. The retailer gets none of that 10 cents.
@Milesco
5 ай бұрын
@@michaeld.3779 That's not true.
@christopher9727
5 ай бұрын
Love of money and power is sin Do you know Jesus Christ can set you free from sins and save you from hell today Jesus Christ is the only hope in this world no other gods will lead you to heaven There is no security or hope with out Jesus Christ in this world come and repent of all sins today Today is the day of salvation come to the loving savior Today repent and do not go to hell Come to Jesus Christ today Jesus Christ is only way to heaven Repent and follow him today seek his heart Jesus Christ can fill the emptiness he can fill the void Heaven and hell is real cone to the loving savior today Today is the day of salvation tomorrow might be to late come to the loving savior today Romans 6.23 For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. John 3:16-21 16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. 17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. 18 He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. 19 And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. 20 For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. 21 But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God. Mark 1.15 15 And saying, The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, and believe the gospel. 2 Peter 3:9 The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. Hebrews 11:6 6 But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him. Jesus
@Tragicide
5 ай бұрын
It was the dumbest fucking shit law that did nothing but extort evryone. Now evrybody just takes it up the ass as if it were the norm instead of fighting it back FUCK CALIFORNIA.
@sharkbaitj
5 ай бұрын
California is full of nuts and fruits. Every fruit is a little nutty and every nut is a little fruity. - A. Bunker
@jamjardj1974
5 ай бұрын
😂
@WayneBraack
5 ай бұрын
Those where the days.
@mountainghoti1671
5 ай бұрын
Granola cities
@Billy-ye3ge
5 ай бұрын
Those fruits and nuts live in our big city's, the rest of our fruits and nuts feed the country
@victormorales3604
5 ай бұрын
Yup, an if you ain't a fruit or a nut, then you're a "Meathead".
@mirradian
4 ай бұрын
This makes no sense to me at all. My state enacted a plastic bag ban and I immediately just stock piled some plastic bags. Not the fancy reusable ones, just ordinary plastic bags. A bit thicker than the originals as the new ones cost 8 cents to buy and had to be “certified” for minimal 125 re-uses (whatever the certification even means lol). But now 2 years later I’m still using those same bags. I keep them in the car, buy my groceries, cart the groceries out to my car and just bag my stuff cart-to-car easy peasy. I used to take the bags in with me, to bag in-store but realized I could easily bag at my car and stopped. Heck sometimes if I only need a few things I just take 1 or 2 bags in with me use them instead of a cart, scan it all at the self check, re-bag and go. The real problem here is laziness and poor planning, people just not wanting to remember taking the bags with them or not wanting to clean the bags when they get just a little dirty. The law should definitely be repealed, but the law itself isn’t the real problem, the real issue is human behavior, and for that there’s no quick easy solution at all :(
@zac_in_ak
5 ай бұрын
Anchorage did the same thing and it gets mocked daily where I work. As these people walk around places where everything is in a plastic container
@ScotttheCyborg
5 ай бұрын
According to a study by the University of Wales, an organic cotton reusable bag would have to be used over 200 times WITHOUT washing it in order for its carbon footprint to equal one single-use plastic bags. That name is a lie because very few of the ones I get are used only once. A paper bag would need to be used about 7 times. The total pollution chain for a so-called single use plastic bag is a tiny fraction of those cotton reusable ones, the legislature is reacting to the visible end product and not the total chain and of course making the problem worse as a result. It's affirmative action for pollution.
@mustangracer5124
5 ай бұрын
It's PROFITABLE.. for the insider traders (pelosi).. do your commyfornia math.
@tomhubbard353
5 ай бұрын
SAME with all the electric vehicles, they are only "Green" if you paint them green!
@antilogism
5 ай бұрын
@@tomhubbard353 Be careful where you spread science or you could get canceled.
@captainz9
5 ай бұрын
I used the "single use" grocery bags for my 3-4gallon bedroom/bathroom trash cans, as well as occasionally using them as packing material mailing things out... All banning them did was cause me to have to start buying even thicker small plastic trash bags for my room bins.
@foonzelde
5 ай бұрын
Between walking the dog and lining the small trash cans in my house, I have a reuse for every plastic grocery bag I bring home. If they ban those bags here, when I go the grocery store to buy plastic dog-waste bags and plastic trash bags, I will have to bring them home in something else.
@JohnKendall05
5 ай бұрын
Oregon has done that same stupid ban, then on top of that they charge 5 cents for every paperbag you use.
@pace1195
5 ай бұрын
That's to subsidize the logging industry in your state. They can't make enough money selling paper bags. 😉
@rodterrell304
5 ай бұрын
it will go up in price
@RomanticPopPunk
5 ай бұрын
Less plastic bags on the street and less clogging. Think about it
@kypparmstrong2775
5 ай бұрын
It is just so ridiculous. I go to the supermarket and purchase meat in plastic, berries in plastic, shrimp, French fries, tater tots, frozen vegetables all in plastic, they even still provide the thin plastic bags for fresh fruit and vegetables, and premixed salad comes in a plastic bag. But I CAN'T have a f'n bag to get it all to the car?! Plus I reused the grocery bags for other things. Brilliant!
@RomanticPopPunk
5 ай бұрын
@kypparmstrong2775 Have a bunch of reusable plastic bags in the trunk and then push your cart to the car. Do you guys not know how this works?
@robstravelsadventures
4 ай бұрын
I remember as a kid in the late 70's how they said paper bags were bad, banned them, and we were told to use plastic instead. Now they have a lot bigger problem then they did with paper bags seeing that paper bags naturally decompose much quicker and efficently.
@davidvavra9113
5 ай бұрын
I live in the Pacific Northwest, where they hand you a paper bag and send you out into the rain
@robertschmidt9296
5 ай бұрын
😂
@brienq
5 ай бұрын
I'm here too and i agree paper bags don't make sense in our climate especially for those who use public transportation - they didn't think that through. Burlap would possibly hold up better in the rain and is biodegradable, but not totally water proof.
@Capohanf1
5 ай бұрын
@@brienqAND GERMS AND MOLD GROW BETTER IN BURLAP BAGS! Stored in a car's trunk or back seat and see the Science Fair Project they become in just a week!
@Jay-od8zf
5 ай бұрын
My only option in the Seattle area at my Walmart is to buy one of their reusable bags or take the stuff out in the cart.
@HaloInStereo
5 ай бұрын
We are only flooded with plastic bags at the stores in the first place because the people now screaming about them are the same ones who fought to get everyone to stop using biodegradable, recyclable paper bags "to save the rainforests!!!".
@kengrow3992
5 ай бұрын
Hawaii did the same thing. They also do the federal government incentivized recycling drives, but they never write into the Grant that the recyclables collected need to be actually recycled so they are stored at the dump. I tried to purchase the cubed up aluminum cans, thinking I would ship them off island and was told they actually belong to the federal government so they can’t sell them to me. Now they’re destroyed by salt air ,unrecyclable.
@bertwhetstone3173
5 ай бұрын
Bureaucracy in action. There's always that one clerk in the line who can't connect two dots.
@Samuel_el_toro
5 ай бұрын
My favorite was during covid my local grocery store would not allow me to bring in a reuse-able bag that I bought from said store.
@DevilTrojanChic
5 ай бұрын
Yep... And those ridiculous masks became the number one plastic pollutant, overtaking cigarette butts. But we never heard that. Makes no sense!
@frankmacleod2565
5 ай бұрын
@@DevilTrojanChic are you people still going on about the masks? Get over it already. That was years ago.
@frankmacleod2565
5 ай бұрын
@@DevilTrojanChic cigarette butts are the leading plastic pollutant in California? Have you been repeating that since 1957? Might want to update your knowledge from time to time
@tburgher1
5 ай бұрын
Same in Oregon!
@maxcloutier5285
5 ай бұрын
You are right about this move was about making money. I was reusing the little grocery plastic bags as garbage bags. Now I must buy boxes of larger garbage plastic bags at Costco. When the grocery stopped to give the plastic bags for free, they also stopped to offer the paper bags that were more "planet friendly". It was a move purely for making money.
@little1942
5 ай бұрын
Bingo!
@glennwelch5122
5 ай бұрын
Australia introduced the same law. Here it was pushed by the big supermarkets as a positive step to reduce waste. I believe the motive was simple, to avoid the possibility of a class action lawsuit for offering “free” single use bags that in most cases are later used as garbage bags and end up in landfill. If the reusable bags still end up in landfill it’s no longer their legal issue because they were purchased by a consumer, the same goes if you purchase a roll of single use bags.
@Sh4rK280
5 ай бұрын
Here in Canada plastic bags have been banned across the country (even though our Courts ruled that it was “unconstitutional” over a year ago). The ridiculous thing is that while they claim that “single use plastic bags” were banned, all of our produce, items from bulk bins, and bakery products are all put in single use plastic bags. The kind that’s super thin and have no handles. Ironically the “single use” bags that they banned are actually not single use at all, because everyone I knew growing up had no less than a THOUSAND of those bags stuffed under their sink, whereas the plastic bags that we still “allow” for all of the aforementioned items are useless after one use and are immediately thrown away due to their impracticality for almost everything else.
@aoscott
5 ай бұрын
Mark my word. In the near future we will see a video similar to this about how the California EV Mandate backfired.
@claudiahowell9508
5 ай бұрын
They are already piling up in the lots, lack of buyers.
@tobagotom
5 ай бұрын
That’s for sure!
@aoscott
5 ай бұрын
@@claudiahowell9508 That's what happens with something on the market that is too expensive and not reliable.
@E4S65
5 ай бұрын
All those battery packs are going to be a disaster at end of life. They aren't easy to disassemble and some of them will even be welded to the frame of the car.
@aoscott
5 ай бұрын
@@E4S65 What I understand is, EV batteries are actually very hazardous and as. you stated not easy to disassemble. This is one of the many issues I have with EV's. The longevity on these batteries to me is not good. I hear after 6 years of use they do not perform well and the cost of replacing them is extremely high.
@jimwerther
5 ай бұрын
Here in New York, it's the same story. Incredibly irritating. Now when I go to Walmart, I bring garbage bags from home to put my purchases into.
@captglenn100
5 ай бұрын
We were doing that in California also. But since Covid came around we cannot bring our own bags anymore.
@jimwerther
5 ай бұрын
@@captglenn100 Really??! Insane.
@joelmartin2549
5 ай бұрын
@@captglenn100, wow very smart of them, one more thing the “COVID” scare was good for! I wonder if they allow you to just put your groceries back in the cart and take them to your car without any bags? I’m sure if enough people are doing that they are working on a “solution” to that too!
@jimwerther
5 ай бұрын
@@joelmartin2549 Allow? Not allow, but demand. While some people - those who don't buy much - place their purchases into reusable bags, the rest of us are supposed to - and do - put everything right back into the carts, and then place them, unbagged, into our vehicles. It gets really annoying when the bottles of soap, or packages of sugar, open up and spill into the car.
@DustBunnnie
5 ай бұрын
Why dont you keep the bags in the trunk of your car & fill them with the food you just bought....@@jimwerther
@FictionalPersonality
5 ай бұрын
Where I live in Seattle they also ban the single use bags. Initially I ran into that issue of either forgetting to bring my bags or finding myself buying new ones every time I visit the store. Nowadays I either bring my own bag or none. It actually works… for me at least. I know lost people aren’t responsible; so i wouldn’t be surprise there is more waste now.
@davidgray2845
5 ай бұрын
Yes, the supermarkets are using this to steal from people. I live in CA and a common occurrence I’ve found is when I pay for 2 bags, I’m charged for 5 to 8 on the receipt. It’s only an extra .50 cents or so, but across every customer for a year, it’s a massive windfall.
@trublgrl
5 ай бұрын
And of course, the plastic bags were used by millions of people as "free" trash bags or storage bags. Since the ban here, I've been buying way more trash bags and using large bags (More plastic) when a small shopping bag would have done the job.
@NiaLaLa_V
5 ай бұрын
I thankfully have ADHD so I had like a thousand of them in the trunk of my car waiting to be recycled. Just pulled them back out to use, but I am about to finally run out and have to start buying the damn things.
@danashumway7090
5 ай бұрын
Blind leading the Blind indeed. Colorado just passed a ban on plastic bags as well. I guess these politicians are incapable of learning from other state's mistakes.
@pace1195
5 ай бұрын
And, CO's ban will still be in effect a decade after CA repeal's their ineffective law.
@rodterrell304
5 ай бұрын
They are investing in this stuff and the plastic industry if contributing to them.
@colorocko1
5 ай бұрын
It's all about power of us sheep! and we follow along sheepishly lol!
@martabachynsky8545
5 ай бұрын
They are not. They think to themselves "maybe _this time_ it will be different". Of course, it could also be intentional...
@Tinker3504
4 ай бұрын
Baltimore county MD just passed the same ban so I now pay 10 cents per paper bag that takes me 2x as long to unload at home(no handles) Hey look, a new tax. Shocking.
@zephsmith3499
5 ай бұрын
When a law or policy is created in response to ideology or feelings rather than based on rational assessment, it should be no surprise that it's not very responsive to negative real world feedback. It was about feelings and impressions and beliefs, and those haven't changed just because the results turn out to be counter-productive to the nominal original goals.
@Jim-fe2xz
5 ай бұрын
When the communists in CA first started this BS, I bought the cheap reusable bags for $.50 a bag. Immediately the checkers started complaining that the bags were dirty and some even use for dirty diaper bags. Then I saw a much younger and smarter in TX suggest buying a plastic tub big enough to hold my groceries and that worked great! It could get a little heavy but manageable and saved all those trips with bags. Then head communist little gavin newsom made it illegal to use reusable bins due to covid. Now I self check, put my groceries back in the cart then transfer them to my bin in the trunk. Buy their bags at check out? Hell no!
@GeoRedtick
5 ай бұрын
Let me tell you about us here in Little California (Oregon). We waited for years after the California single use ban so we could see it wasn’t working and then joined them in the plastic bag ban. Then when it didn’t work we banned all plastic bags and mandated that stores charge for paper bags. Funny thing is when I was a kid stores in Oregon used paper bags, but environmentalists wanted to shut down the timber industry in Oregon so they lobbied against the renewable resource paper bag in favor of the plastic bags. These people really aren’t very smart.
@debracisneroshhp2827
5 ай бұрын
That's a whole other can of worms. 😒
@johnbeck3270
5 ай бұрын
Sounds like the “global warming hoax, doesn’t it? I remember in the ‘80s these same wackos were worried about “ global cooling”m caused by what? You guessed it, too much CO2 in the atmosphere! They will definitely find a way to mess things up, and kill all of us to “save the planet”
@douglasw9624
5 ай бұрын
Lifelong California resident and the story is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to stupid ideas enacted by state legislators. For one thing, in my area, starting in the 1980s, they first banned paper bags, then plastic bags, and then made stores charge for the paper bags to try and force folks to reusable bags. Other stupid ideas: 1) glass recycling program where the end result was almost no reuse of the glass, it was simply trucked to a place in NV called Mount Glassmore. 2) In the 80-90s they got the bright idea to install decorative flowers and birds on walls along freeways, because of course we need something to distract us when we are going 80 mph on a busy freeway. 3) Also around 2000 they installed thousands of digital traffic signs in the state to warn of upcoming traffic issues...good idea in busy cities but I drove from OC to Bay Area and they installed them in the middle of farming areas. Passed probably a hundred of them and they all read something about buckling your seatbelt. 4) Another good one is their law on accessory dwelling units (ADU). To combat homelessness and the high cost of housing in CA, they passed a law which prohibited local govts and HOA from stopping the building of an ADU in a persons backyard or garage. The primary problem with this was that they didn't consider parking (or didn't care). So you live in an HOA condo where parking is tight and an owner can convert their garage into living space without regard the increased parking demand. As you can guess it didnt do anything for housing.
@mikepaulus4766
5 ай бұрын
I have a friend in Michigan who sees huge throw pillows that she stuffs with plastic bags. All her friends in the area bring her their plastic bags from shopping, and she gives the pillows to friends because she already has plenty.
@travishill6733
5 ай бұрын
I sperged out on this during the pandemic. According to a Scandinavian examination of the classic Carrier Bag to the 'reuseables' is that you need to use the new bags 7 times before it breaks even pollution-wise to using the Carrier Bag for groceries once, then using it as trash the 2nd time. Has ANYONE gone out of their way to use those bags SEVEN times? It's not just "more plastic" its literally multiplying the amount of pollution caused by grocery bags....for the environment.
@georgetarbutton2141
5 ай бұрын
Delaware did the same. I recently moved down to your state, Virginia. I still have my reusable bags from Delaware in my truck. Lol
@rickintexas1584
5 ай бұрын
I’m so glad I live in Texas. I spend a lot of time in California on business, but I’m so happy to go home to Texas when my trip is done!
@vinceruland9236
5 ай бұрын
Same here. I lived my first 23 years in Cali, and the last 26 in Texas. You couldn't pay me to go back.
@P010010010100101
5 ай бұрын
It was proven that regular plastic bags use less plastic over the lifetime of a reusable plastic bag. And they break down easier.
@devinpol4258
5 ай бұрын
Was it proven? Or are you just saying this?
@P010010010100101
5 ай бұрын
@devinpol4258 I'm not just saying it.
@RichardStanton-c3j
5 ай бұрын
@@devinpol4258Trust me bro!
@colorocko1
5 ай бұрын
proven, do your research sheeple!@@devinpol4258
@jfceb3
5 ай бұрын
Bag ban in NY too. We actually had a practical re-use for our plastic handle bags before throwing them away. Now we buy plastic bags for those functions, and they are typically only used once before disposal. So... still the same plastic output for us, only it costs us a little more. But some politician can now use it as a re-election claim.
@daveporter9222
5 ай бұрын
Another one Gavin’s laws hurt California more than help it? Surprise surprise. So glad I left that state about 27 years ago. I have been enjoying freedom ever since. ☮️🇺🇸
@rs-bi8yf
5 ай бұрын
Well 20 years ago I worked at a land fill in the bay area ! Every week 3-40 ft trailers came in stuffed to the roof with plastic bags !!! Not to talk about the trailers full of aluminum cans !!
@brienq
5 ай бұрын
i'm glad we got rid of the pastic bags, we should go with burlap for durable and reuseable and biodegradable.
@Capohanf1
5 ай бұрын
@@brienqOnly problem would be there would be bad things GROWING in that burlap bag after just a week in a car's trunk!
@brienq
5 ай бұрын
We have gotten so used to our modern synthetics and have forgotten how to adapt like our ancestors did for so many years using natural fibers like burlap for shipping and heavy duty uses. Remember the cloth or burlap sacks of flour, beanms, sugar, etc. stacked up on the floors of the General Stores or unloaded or unloaded from wagons in some of those Western flicks? Burlap is a strong, coarse cloth made from the fibers of jute, flax, or hemp. It's also known as Hessian, and is woven from the skin of plants that contain strong fibers. The fabric has a coarse feel and an earthy scent. @@Capohanf1
@colorocko1
5 ай бұрын
buy them then. be a role model instead of talking about it. @@brienq
@clearviewmoai
5 ай бұрын
They did this in Australia too, even though the federal government has no constitutional authority to ban plastic bags, and the results were the same.
@brentjohnson9210
5 ай бұрын
Same in Canada
@andrewlutes2048
5 ай бұрын
I used to re-use “single use” bags as my garbage bags, so they were actually always double use. Now I have to buy extra plastic bags because of a plastic bag ban.
@tamarasmith9060
5 ай бұрын
I got reusable fabric bags, regular & a couple insulated ones (that can be washed to not spread dirt & germs) thinking the plastic would get banned here too. But then the stores would never get stands that could hold them up. The insulated ones kinda stood on their own, but the cloth ones are so hard to bag in it takes 5 times as long to bag. So back to using the plastic ones they can bag in quickly & then putting them into the recycling where I'm sure they never get recycled by the city.
@norellweiner3341
5 ай бұрын
They don't get a dime from me for bags. I've been using cloth bags (the same ones I bought in my 20s that I now use in my 60s). I only had 2 get holes which I mended and have made others from old jeans and T-shirts.
@christof4105
5 ай бұрын
you´re the only sane person here... The problem isn´t that good intentions tend to backfire, it´s because lawmakers leave loopholes in the laws so corporations and politicians can profit off it.
@Capohanf1
5 ай бұрын
AND as a bonus, you can produce your own penicillin from the mold growing IN the bags!
@rholmst
5 ай бұрын
I don’t pay a dime for the my bags, either. I bought a box of plastic ‘Thank You’ bags online (free shipping and no sales tax). A fraction of a penny each and I have enough to last a couple of decades at my normal usage rate. I use them the same way I’ve always used them - transporting items from the store, garbage disposal around the house, and ‘other’ yard waste, then right into the bin!
@thomabb
5 ай бұрын
I have two small plastic knock-down totes that I use as grocery bags. Bought them years ago to use at Sam's Club which doesn't offer any bags at all. Now I use them at other stores.
@Da__goat
5 ай бұрын
I like how they didn't go with alternatives like biodegradable plastic bags, which can be made cheaply from all the corn the US grows, only to then absolutely deforest Oregon and Washington for paper bags.
@adrienneanderson-smith2257
5 ай бұрын
We never used bags at Costco or Sam’s Club. Emptied crates did the job. Stores supplying bags was a courtesy afterthought. Remember in I Love Lucy - groceries were delivered in a cardboard box!
@Stratfordtrucker2811
5 ай бұрын
We did the same thing up here in Canada and the initiative worked just fine, because we weren’t stupid enough to throw out our reusable bags. We have reusable bags that we’ve use for years.
@joejackson6205
5 ай бұрын
Colorado now charges a Tax, not a retailers fee, of 10 cents for every bag that goes out the door. This is also further proof that states should have length of residence laws for voting. The US Constition does state the qualifications to vote in any state, must be the same as to be a member of the most numerous legislative house in the state. For most, maybe a 2 year delay before being allowed to vote, however people coming from California, Oregon, Washington, Massachusetts, Vermont, New Jersey, and New York should probably have to wait 5 years to vote in the new state they are moving into.
@joelmartin2549
5 ай бұрын
That would be a good idea for state/local position but I think federal should be otherwise. In fact I like this idea the whole way down the line, new citizen = 2 years before ANY voting, move to a new municipality, two years before you can vote for the local board etc, etc…
@joejackson6205
5 ай бұрын
@joelmartin2549 that is what I am saying. All the states have requirements to be elected to the most numerous branch of their legislature, but they are not enforcing such as requirements for voting as the Constition stipulates.
@mustang607
5 ай бұрын
I'll bet the dollar stores are making a killing on these over priced plastic bags.
@robertschmidt9296
5 ай бұрын
In commifornia, the stores profits from the bags had to be donated to a charity.
@rholmst
5 ай бұрын
I bought mine online (free shipping and no sales tax). It’s been awhile, but I recall doing some quick math. At the price I paid, the cost per bag was a fraction of a penny and I’ve got enough (in a pretty small box) to last me a couple of decades.
@ronaldmasters1225
5 ай бұрын
What gets me is that they ban plastic at the counter yet everything you buy comes wrapped in plastic.
@matildarei
5 ай бұрын
When I was in high school in the ‘90s, I worked part time at Safeway. We were told not to ask, “paper or plastic?” but rather, “Is plastic ok?” We were told that paper bags cost the store 7 cents each, whereas plastic cost 3 cents each. We lived in a logging community along the coast of Washington, where the timber industry supported many families. We were still 3:15 instructed to use plastic, even though paper was a renewable resource produced in our town. In school we were told that plastic takes hundreds of years to biodegrade, but paper takes weeks (or less, depending on different factors - just soak them and leave them outside for a couple of weeks and you can see they’re disintegrated). But then they told us that plastic bags “take up less space in landfills,” so they are obviously better for the environment. I stopped trusting my teachers, my employer, and the general propaganda right about then. It didn’t take a Ph.D. in environmental science to recognize that logic exists and I was being manipulated.
@edm52
5 ай бұрын
"Lawmakers in San Francisco"???? Check again, please.
@martybarbeau
5 ай бұрын
Just like they banned plastic straws, I went to Smart & Final and bought a box of plastic straws for $5.00 and still haven't used them all yet and that was FOUR YEARS AGO! I also have boxes of plastic bags (of which I carry at least 4 in my back pocket everyday) that I use to bag my groceries!!!
@terramarini6880
5 ай бұрын
A Canadian journalist went out and got some footage of a landfill with all the plastic littered and blowing about, at the beginning of our plastic ban. One year later he went out to the exact same landfill and filmed reusable bags (made of petroleum product) littered and blowing about. Changed nothing because so many people order delivery and thus do not bring their reusable bags, they just get a handful more to toss after one use and the reusable bags don't break down either. Ban also impacted one of our compostable bag manufacturers (made from corn) because they could not be told apart from plastic. Worst mistake ever. Also slows lines at till way down because people take forever to bag their own (personal retail rant). Glad garbage bag company is laughing all the way to the bank.
@jimwerther
5 ай бұрын
Nick didn't mention it, but creating reusable fabric bags affects the environment far more than does using disposable plastic ones. It would take 75,000 uses of each reusable bag to make it worth it.
@brentfrank7012
5 ай бұрын
Here is my “Why question for a future video” Why does California from every angle want to dump fresh water in the ocean? Is it profit from higher costs? Is it control? I just heard today that a desalination plant will be started on the Delta cleaning salt from brackish water. WTF, why not grab the water upstream from the delta while it’s still fresh water? I live in Central California and on a lake. Monterey County Water District built the dam and so has rights to all the water since the 50’s. But they dump a tremendous amount of water straight into the ocean every year. It runs right past the farmers, right over the dam like bladders along the Salinas river, it’s just insane!!! Anyone can see the fresh water dumping into the Monterey Bay by simply driving to the city of Marina and looking.
@blacksheep_edge1412
5 ай бұрын
As a fellow American trapped behind enemy lines here in Commiefornia I can tell you why they dump all that water. It's to save an endangered species of **FISH**. If the rivers were allowed to drop too low then this "precious" endangered fish species will die out. It's f*cking ludicrous. The once green and growing farmlands are turning brown and dying out all along the valley from the Grapevine to Sacramento. It breaks my heart, and they're never going to listen to you and me and common sense, they going to continue to listen to the idiots on the far left and continue to ruin this once great state.
@BJCMXY
5 ай бұрын
If they used all of that water getting "dumped" then you could forget about all of the fish and wildlife that that water sustains, and if they took to much it'll end up like the Colorado which is almost to the point of being incapable of sustaining anything due to evaporation, and without water depth, fish are exposed to more extreme temperatures, algea also becomes an issue when rivers and streams are too low on water. If humans just use all of the resources for themselves, and leave nothing for the ecosystem in which we reside, that ecosystem dies...and then humans are forced to migrate to more hospitable environments. Russia drained one of the world's largest lakes due to unregulated withdrawals for agricultural purposes, and it's now a barren place where there used to be thriving fishing industries, the winds kick up the sediment, and because of pesticide use before the draining of the lake, that dust is extremely dangerous to be exposed to. It looks more post apocalyptic than you'd expect. It's not wasteful to focus on at least making a bit of an effort to not outright destroy the ecosystem. 💁🏼♂️ If you want to blame anyone, why not fine the corporations that benefit the most from ecological destruction, like the fossil fuel industry. Regardless of what you do otherwise, they'll benefit.
@Elliandr
5 ай бұрын
This situation reminds me of the prohibition of alcohol. The early feminists decided to blame alcohol for making their husbands and fathers abusive rather than holding individuals responsible for their own actions and so worked to ban alcohol nationwide. As a consequence organized crime flourished and the consumption of alcohol skyrocketed such that even a full century later the consumption of alcohol remains higher. We saw a similar thing happen with the war on drugs which is why, despite personally supporting public smoking bans so as to protect non-smokers and disabled persons, I feel that an outright ban is a bad is a bad idea no matter how bad it might actually be. If you want to change society you don't do it through banning. You educate people. You make people WANT to be different and care more.
@Customerbuilder
5 ай бұрын
My county in MD just started this year. It's miserable.
@balthasar6091
5 ай бұрын
Two things: 1.The maybe best approach that they should have been going to was the use of the classic brown paper bag. A solution literally appealing to everyone, retro and environmentaly friendly at the same time. 2. Hearing that people went to the store, bought the pretty expensive bags, don't use them again, throw them away and just continue the cicle of this madness seems for ones not like the entire fault of the stores and the gouvernment. Like, I can't even imagine how well paid you must get paid that this doesn't effect you in any way.
@kilerog
5 ай бұрын
There are stores in New York that use brown paper bags. Those bags are horrible. They're hard to carry stuff in, rip easily, can't withstand any sort of liquid, can't be tied off well at the top, and overall aren't worth reusing. The only thing I do with these bags after getting one is throwing it out. Plus I still need to pay an extra fee just to get these shitty bags. No thank you. At least fabric and plastic bags can be reused while also doubling up as storage and garbage bags for your house. On people throwing the bags out--a lot of times the fees don't seem that big. If you're shopping for your family and already throwing out a couple hundred dollars on food for the week, spending a little bit more on bags does not seem like that much. Now, obviously, this builds up since you're doing it every time you go to the store. Which is why I reuse bags. But a lot of people prefer the convenience and are willing to pay for it.
@stevenscott2136
5 ай бұрын
People are so accustomed to throwing plastic containers away that they do it without thinking, even when they've paid for them. Even the word "plastic" is a buzzword for disposable and fake. The disdain for plastic is built right into our culture.
@williamfranks1215
5 ай бұрын
In my state, we still have cheap plastic bags. I reuse them as much as possible. Trash,Catt litter, to ship things.,ect. Different bags for each. Walk the dog and take the bag.
@Capohanf1
5 ай бұрын
AND WHERE DO YOU THINK THE PAPER IN THE BAG COMES FROM???? Maybe clear cutting MILLIONS of miles of trees!!!!!
@markdorn8873
5 ай бұрын
@@Capohanf1Nearly all the paper companies in the US get their trees from their own tree farms, which are sustainably managed.
@OutbackKanga
5 ай бұрын
Australia has stupidly gone down the same road , we are atm forced to buy useless paper bags that can not be reused whatsoever , they do not even get to the car in one piece :(
@E4S65
5 ай бұрын
I live in Oregon and they are pushing the same laws on us. These laws are literally worse for the environment in every way possible. Virtually no one EVER brings bags back to the store. These new heavy duty bags just get thrown away just like the thin bags after one use. Now our local Walmarts in Oregon only provide the blue 99¢ bags. Lots of people have more of the blue Walmart bag then they know what to do with, and we will have to start throwing those stupid bags away too.
@Tuisto
5 ай бұрын
the reusable bags wouldn't be so bad an idea if they were made from cotton or other natural fiber that can decompose if thrown away, but nope, the ones sold in stores are all some polyester material which is even worse than the single use bags.
@estiennetaylor1260
5 ай бұрын
That will be difficult for these manufactures and stores to make a profit unlike made from plastic with "reusables" labelling.
@thomabb
5 ай бұрын
You overlook another flaw in the system. Municipal landfills are required to use plastic liners to prevent groundwater contamination. Nothing in a modern code-compliant landfill can decompose because it is trapped in layers of plastic.
@lancebrown1076
5 ай бұрын
Run for president Nick!
@ZergRadio
5 ай бұрын
Sweden. I use public transport. I use a 35 litre Backpack to load my shopping into it.. I have used it in 20 years and still going strong. On very rare occasions I might purchase one plastic bag if I have bought a bit too much stuff or if they are too bulky. (That might be like once a year I purchase a plastic bag.)
@stevenscott2136
5 ай бұрын
That's a good idea. We'd probably all be amazed at how many Americans HAVE backpacks they've used on ONE outdoor excursion, but can't be bothered to put them in the car for grocery day.
@yvan2563
5 ай бұрын
Keep a strong re-usable bag folded at the bottom of your backpack for when you need it.
@laurie7689
5 ай бұрын
I'm a US American. I buy in bulk.
@borrago
5 ай бұрын
North Carolina- I also use (FREE) public transport and carry all my stuff in a 35L pack.
@borrago
5 ай бұрын
@@stevenscott2136None of my neighbors are as foolish as you describe. Must be a problem with your part of the country.
@Ragnar009
5 ай бұрын
They did the same in NJ. I just bought 2000 single use bags from Amazon for 20 bucks. I bring them in the stores.
@terri2494
5 ай бұрын
I live in California (one of the more conservative parts) and I finally got to where I remembered to bring my bags into the grocery store with me. Then covid hit and we weren’t allowed to use our own bags. However, we could pay 10 cents a bag to purchase them from the store.
@GrammaNay
5 ай бұрын
Aaaargh! Oregon passed the same law several years back!😡😤
@troy.peters
5 ай бұрын
Western Oregon is just Northern Northern California.
@GrammaNay
5 ай бұрын
@@troy.peters And that's why we have such sucky laws regarding hunting, fishing, and other land uses.
@TA_33
5 ай бұрын
Oregon said "If California can screw it up, we can do worse."
@kevinogill6726
5 ай бұрын
I recently visited my home state of New Jersey and went to a grocery store in a well-to-do area. I asked for a small basket to use to shop. I was told that the store had recently purchased 50 "really nice shopping baskets" but they were all stolen within a couple of days. The store did not provide plastic or paper bags and the woman I spoke with seemed not to understand why people were leaving the store with the new baskets. Most likely these were also thrown in the trash as soon as the shoppers were home.
@chrisbaker8533
5 ай бұрын
My walmart had some of these, less than a week, they had security tags on them ,within a month, they were all gone, haven't seen them in a local store since.
@robertgreen9980
5 ай бұрын
The bags that were banned were multi use. Trash can liners, lunch bags, dirty kids clothes, poop bags, I can go on and on…
@LV4EVR
5 ай бұрын
And, today they're typically made to break down in landfills MUCH faster than before.
@robertgreen9980
5 ай бұрын
@@LV4EVR but they charge you now! I’d rather have free
@LV4EVR
5 ай бұрын
@@robertgreen9980 Ouch. Thankful for sane, Republican policies here. No bans, bags free.
@Beachdawg1996
5 ай бұрын
When I go to CA I get some of the heavy duty bags and bring them home. I get dirty looks from people because i don’t bring my own bags, but i reuse them for a few years.
@randysmith2740
5 ай бұрын
If there's a bag ban what happens to Kamala?
@NovaJaye
5 ай бұрын
We do use our reusable shopping bags for years. We also use non-reusable plastic shopping bags as trash bags as much as we can. If they ban all plastic shopping bags we still have to buy plastic trash bags because there are no alternatives.
@safsren
5 ай бұрын
I was here in California when the ban went into place and am still just as pissed about it as when it went into effect
@MonkeyMind69
5 ай бұрын
*_Pollution and waste isn't a bag problem, it's a culture problem._* Trying to treat the symptom and not the problem will always backfire. In my household, we use plastic bags as trashcan liners. So yes, they do go to the landfill, but they save us from having to buy EXTRA bags for the trash which would arguably double the amount of plastic bags we use. We of course recycle where we can, and had we the land, we would compost too. The root problem, which could be construed as a capitalism/consumerism issue, is that society has made it *_easier_* to access disposable products than permanent ones.
@majorlagg9321
5 ай бұрын
Is the plastic bag ban based on an eight grader's report, too? That's where the plastic straw ban came from. An eighth grader called a straw company and asked how many straws were sold a day and the receptionist threw out a number. Boom! A ban!
@joyfulhomemaker8053
5 ай бұрын
Not the mention the fact that the old plastic bags were great for lining trash cans or on road trips, etc. Now you HAVE to buy plastic bags to use as trash bags anyway
@barneycoffman6663
5 ай бұрын
When California made that ruling, the stores started charging 10 cents for a bag. The new plastic bags were heavier plastic so they would be reusable. The charge for the bags was supposedly, to go back to the state government, to some bureaucracy agency to over see the new ruling. Many people do reuse the bags and bought sturdier bags which have lasted me for years.
@micheleelmore8074
5 ай бұрын
Remember when plastic bags were introduced? Save the trees they said. Now CA has wildfires every single summer.
@JAMESSELBY-t7n
5 ай бұрын
An interesting thought. The plastic bags we can no longer use were made from Methane Gas, and they do degrade. Takes a while though. So now we get to use bags made from petroleum. Increasing our need for oil. And increases the need for plastic trash bags. True they didn't hold a lot of trash. But I found them more convenient. And generally had an ample supply of them. They were great in a vehicle. Better than what was commercially available way back then. That could barely hold that fast lunch from the drive-up window and would be overflowing before one got a chance to empty it.
@j95lee
5 ай бұрын
CA was hoping that the bag fee would actually discourage customers from buying those thick reusable plastic bag. But apparently people just paid 10 cents to buy the bags. They’re often used to line small trash cans in homes. They’re going straight to dumpsters. Some cashiers will just give them away. In the self checkout lines it seems possible to just take those bags without paying for them. I’ve paid for them I’ve but accidentally taken two bags on some occasion. No one has stopped me.
@danajorgensen1358
5 ай бұрын
What this actually exposes is the general state of laziness that infects the public. I've got my bags, learned how to repair them, take the time to refold them properly, etc. I even read the instructions and warning printed on them. Most people are completely unaware they're only strong enough to hold about a gallon and a half of liquid. There is a learning curve to the reusable bags, and most people are simply too lazy to make the effort. Finally, more than just CA and NJ have gone this route. CT is another state that banned single use plastic bags, doing so at least a year before NJ did. Also, they're good for more than shopping. I use the older ones as laundry baskets. They're a lot easier to carry around than laundry baskets and they hold about the same amount.
@VanGarrett
5 ай бұрын
I live in California. When the ban first started, we initially tried to reuse the bags. There was a real problem, first in getting the bags back to my car, and second, in remembering to bring the bags inside the store. Our collection of bags just kept growing, and I got tired of having them scattered all over my garage and the trunk of my car. It turns out that if I'm spending $300 on groceries, I don't give a damn about spending another $1.50 to $2 on bags. It's basically unnoticeable, and I'm probably spending more on sales tax and CRV. We just throw the bags away and buy new bags, as needed. We'll even overestimate how many we need, so we don't have to worry about it. I think the bag law sort of makes sense out on the coast, because those plastic bags are terrible out on the water, but I live in the Central Valley, and there's a whole mountain range between me and the ocean.
@cristinabutasimon9159
5 ай бұрын
"There was a real problem, first in getting the bags back to my car, and second, in remembering to bring the bags inside the store. " That is a real problem for you?Wow! "I think the bag law sort of makes sense out on the coast, because those plastic bags are terrible out on the water, but I live in the Central Valley, and there's a whole mountain range between me and the ocean." Wow! How self centered and selfish. Even if you lived in a bubble everything affects everything and everybody. It's like those people who say that other countries pollute more so what does it matter if I pollute. I hope you don't have children.
@borrago
5 ай бұрын
You clearly had both a Leftist Peoples Republic AND a Common Core education.
@caseclosed9342
3 ай бұрын
I remember my old work had me scheduled for training in California back in 2019. Going to the store across from my hotel I go to self checkout and there is no plastic bags and they want 10 cents for each paper bag. I thought “what kind of state is this”?
@robertovazquez8512
5 ай бұрын
The same happened in Puerto Rico in December 2016. The light plastic bags were provided free by the supermarket prior to the ban. Now we customers have to pay 10 cents for heavier plastic bags. So, it was good for supermarkets.
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