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There is a great article today in the Greensboro News & Record. North Carolina Senate leader Marc Basnight, wants to ban plastic shopping bags in counties along the Outer Banks saying they are a trashy eyesore when blowing along the beaches. “Bags that get out of trash cans pollute the beauty that Outer Banks businesses are promoting to tourists”, he said.
Personally, I think plastic bags should be banned EVERYWHERE. They are devastating to our environment. Did you know:
600 bags are used PER SECOND in the state of California alone? Most are simply discarded and never go away.
It costs the state of California $25 million annually to landfill discarded plastic bags? Plastic bags are a huge pollutant of our environment and are killing birds, fish and wildlife every single day.
Plastic bags, which are made from natural gas or oil, consume an energy equivalent of thousands of barrels of oil a day just to meet California’s consumption.
Before you shop next time think: “paper, plastic or reusable?” NO MORE PLASTIC, please.
***UPDATE*** The bill passed! North Carolina Senate approved it 47-1! Now lets hope it goes state wide, then nation wide!
Yay!!! No more plastic bags on the Outer Banks. The ban was approved today by the Senate.
http://www.news-record.com/content/2009/05/13/article/nc_senate_oks_outer_banks_ban_on_plastic_bags
Buy a REUSABLE bag. Do us ALL a favor!
May 13th, 2009 / 11:32 pm
Thanks for the update, Arminda. I hope this spreads statewide, then country wide!
May 14th, 2009 / 11:09 am
That’s wonderful news! I hope they ban all paper and plastic bags from grocery stores in the future.
May 14th, 2009 / 5:48 pm
I agree. And, until they do, we will use cloth bags and encourage everyone we know to do the same!
May 14th, 2009 / 6:05 pm