Comments on: Fun with Plastax! http://miriamallen.wordpress.com/2009/10/27/fun-with-plastax/ Conscientious Living Tue, 18 Oct 2011 16:07:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Roosevelt http://miriamallen.wordpress.com/2009/10/27/fun-with-plastax/#comment-26 Mon, 08 Mar 2010 16:56:12 +0000 http://littlefishblog.com/2009/10/27/fun-with-plastax/#comment-26 Wow. littlefishblog.com is the shit.

]]> By: toni manos http://miriamallen.wordpress.com/2009/10/27/fun-with-plastax/#comment-18 Tue, 24 Nov 2009 22:24:50 +0000 http://littlefishblog.com/2009/10/27/fun-with-plastax/#comment-18 what’s the positive side of plastic? it is a light weight,opaque,translucent, or transparent material for keeping non edible items from getting wet, moldy, or rusty, and for airline travel …these plastics should be limited and willed to the next generation…the tax is a good start if it can lead the way to the decrease of plastic production…but no worries… the planet will surely survive the plastic plague…it’s the humans that will not… so what about all the humans… dont you think there’s just too many of us?

]]> By: Hyang Widhi http://miriamallen.wordpress.com/2009/10/27/fun-with-plastax/#comment-16 Fri, 20 Nov 2009 02:28:53 +0000 http://littlefishblog.com/2009/10/27/fun-with-plastax/#comment-16 Do I really have to be cool when I use my own grocery bags? Cant I just use my bags and still not be cool??

Attempting to improve someone else’s “cool” factor is a misguided directive if the aim is to break the American dependance on convenience. Dont make it cool–make it inconvenient. Coolness will follow.

]]> By: Tom Dudley http://miriamallen.wordpress.com/2009/10/27/fun-with-plastax/#comment-13 Thu, 12 Nov 2009 20:07:37 +0000 http://littlefishblog.com/2009/10/27/fun-with-plastax/#comment-13 Great article…and I confess I am going to burn in hell for using plastic bags after reading it. I need to re-train myself. The USA is so far behind in so many ways.

Here’s a link to a company where you can get a reusable bag with the words, “My reusable bag makes me better than you” printed on it. ;-)

http://www.mcphee.com/shop/products/Better-Than-You-Shopping-Bag.html

]]> By: Bruce Hauman http://miriamallen.wordpress.com/2009/10/27/fun-with-plastax/#comment-11 Thu, 12 Nov 2009 16:31:54 +0000 http://littlefishblog.com/2009/10/27/fun-with-plastax/#comment-11 Those gyres are truly daunting. Make one wonder about all the other dramatic things we are causing that are out of our view.

]]> By: Miriam Allen http://miriamallen.wordpress.com/2009/10/27/fun-with-plastax/#comment-10 Thu, 12 Nov 2009 14:02:54 +0000 http://littlefishblog.com/2009/10/27/fun-with-plastax/#comment-10 I agree completely. I’d much prefer a ban to another tax. But then, how do you convince the county to agree to the ban? They are more likely to agree to a tax first, and the ultimate issue here to get rid of the plastic via whatever means works best.

]]> By: B http://miriamallen.wordpress.com/2009/10/27/fun-with-plastax/#comment-9 Thu, 12 Nov 2009 13:53:32 +0000 http://littlefishblog.com/2009/10/27/fun-with-plastax/#comment-9 Yet another tax. Well it does seem to be many peoples answer to alot of things. If we need to rid ourselves of plastic bags and bottles, why tax, make them illegal to use like Mexico. Another tax is just another transfer of wealth from the working class. Poverty and taxation cleans up nothing.

]]> By: Thomas http://miriamallen.wordpress.com/2009/10/27/fun-with-plastax/#comment-8 Thu, 12 Nov 2009 10:28:37 +0000 http://littlefishblog.com/2009/10/27/fun-with-plastax/#comment-8 I remember seeing a TV report quite some years ago, of Trash Barges hauling off mountains of garbage and corpses of unclaimed homeless and dumping it all off the coast of NYC, supposedly into some whirlpool out there. Their concern at that time was that the sharks would accustom themselves to eating humans, thereby endangering the living ones wallowing in closer to shore. I imagined, at the time, sharks dosing themselves on alcohol, heroin, cocaine and disease saturated bodies. Moral? Playing with sharks could be damaging to your well being.

]]> By: Thomas http://miriamallen.wordpress.com/2009/10/27/fun-with-plastax/#comment-7 Thu, 12 Nov 2009 10:17:07 +0000 http://littlefishblog.com/2009/10/27/fun-with-plastax/#comment-7 Paris also has a ‘Bring your own bag’ rule, which used to be the norm all over France, until the advent of plastic. All of Germany is very much into recycling, even separating glass by color. They collect into a special bag all packaging materials which is picked up bi-weekly. Garbage is picked up only once a month. That is how much real trash a household is expected to generate. They have huge trash burning plants used to generate hot water, which is then pumped through insulated pipes to heat houses in the winter. They even receive trainloads of trash from China for this purpose. C’mon America, get with it.

]]> By: Isa http://miriamallen.wordpress.com/2009/10/27/fun-with-plastax/#comment-5 Wed, 11 Nov 2009 23:50:38 +0000 http://littlefishblog.com/2009/10/27/fun-with-plastax/#comment-5 I’m still in favor of my own crocheted bags, or the nylon Chico bags…but if you have to take a bag, yes, you should get taxed.
Awesome article!

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