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You be informed I really don’t understand the need to regulate this. I need plastic bags, so do you.
First of all if you take away my well-spring of bathroom garbage bags and lunch bags, I will have to go buy them. There are certain things that I will never use a fabric bag for. The type that I will have to buy to replace the outlawed ones are not as biodegradable as the thin, light irascible ones used by the grocery stores.
Glad or other brand name muck bags are made of thicker and more durable plastic because they have an obligation to not make a thin bag that will rip at the slightest persuade. These other, more durable bags, will cause an even greater problem than we have now.
In the last 30 years I have never thrown away a bag that did not have a big hole in it. I reuse them for many things – lunches that may public, bathroom waste baskets, packing material, insulation for food, hand-me-down clothing, pack to give away, etc.
As soon as sunlight hits these thin bags the biodegrading system begins. The real problem is that some people are lazy, wasteful and have no creativity on how to reuse what they already have. You can’t regulate that.
Source: Bainbridge Island Review