Work smarter, not harder. I shouldn't have to make extra trips to carry all my groceries just because somebody else was throwing plastic bags on the ground. When I want to swing by the store after work to pick some stuff up I shouldn't have to go home first to grab some reusable bags. I shouldn't have to always keep a supply of them in my car just in case either. Plastic is a wonderful invention of modern life that makes my life easier. There's nothing wrong with buying it in landfills after I use it either. It's not my fault that some people are savages and throw garbage on the ground. They're the bad people, not me.
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You fail to understand that Plastic is intrinsically bad, not the people, nor yourself. There are many ways to solve your issue of carrying your shit from the store. Plastic is simply the cheapest solution, and that is only true because the manufacturer of that plastic obfuscates the full expense of plastic.
Your obsession with making your life “easier” means your answer to my statement is “lazy”
It's effective. Give me something as effective or better and I will use that instead. Banning plastic bags is stupid regressive hippie shit that takes progress backwards. In all things, I prefer to use the most effective tool for the job.
A canvas bag is equally effective, in fact more so, as it is resilient. You’re just lazy and refuse to bring them with you to the store.
Honestly it’s not your fault, you’re a typically lazy American, raised during an age of consumption and trained to be self centered and myopic. I don’t blame you, but you should just embrace how lazy you are and admit the truth.
In bitcoin terms, you have a high time preference. Own it.
Progress is reducing either the cost or the effort required to accomplish a task. That's how you improve quality of life. Adding either more time or more effort to a task is the opposite of progress.
Before you start calling for a ban on single use plastic bags, you'd better invent something better that gets the job done. Put strong disposable single use bags in stores that are biodegradable. That would be progress. I won't entertain regressive ideas.
Dude, they fucking existed before plastic. I already told you the answer, paper bags. Canvas bags are an even better solution. Baskets have been weaves for centuries. You’re just ignoring the solitons, and refusing to accept your high time preference behavior.
Like I said, if they put paper bags with handles that don't rip in stores I will use those. Or give me burlap bags at the checkout that I can bag my groceries with. That would work too. Make them out of hemp maybe. That would probably be a lot stronger. But if you just take my plastic bags away and don't replace them with something that works just as well I'm going to call you a stupid regressive hippie and I'll stop shopping at your store. I don't spend any money in Washington State anymore because they did that shit.
It seems that the main issue here are externalities. Plastic bags are amazing solution if you don't include cost (indirect financial cost). One can argue that environmental issues plastic bags create is not that important, but this position is hard to maintain if you have ever been to a seaside