Plastic Bag Opponents Rally in Annapolis
posted 6:22 am Thu October 25, 2007 - ANNAPOLIS, Md.
The proposal would prohibit retailers such as grocery stores from giving out plastic bags within Annapolis city limits. Stores would have to use paper or cloth bags. The sponsor of the idea says plastic bags are a nuisance to the environment and become an eyesore when they litter roadsides. Grocery stores that testified against the ban say plastic bags aren't bad for the environment if people recycle them and that the decision whether to use plastic bags should be up to the customers.
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NonbiasedResearch
9:48 pm on 11/08/07
Facts:
100 billion plastic checkout bags are distributed in the United States every year. Of those, 99 billion end up in landfills or in the environment.
It takes 12 million barrels of oil to produce the 100 billion plastic checkout bags. No oil is used to produce recycled paper checkout bags.
The studies that are quoted and created by the plastics industry and the American Chemistry Council have been discredited.
An academic study shows that the paper bag manufacturing process is much less damaging to the environment than the plastic bag manufacturing process.
Plastic pollutes the aquatic environment and the fish we eat.
Plastic lasts forever.
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