Let’s face it, if your kids are looking for danger, they can spend an afternoon at the local rec. Plastic bags are useless these days, with sturdier paper and trendfuck-y canvas alternatives becoming the native language of product transportation. That’s without weighing in on the environmental impact-that a plastic THANK YOU FOR SHOPPING bag could take 100-1,000 years to decompose, a handy estimate, obviously, if we could find any that had been around that long. California is already legally required to recycle theirs, and Whole Foods now carries only recycled plastic and paper sacks. Aiming for the Captain Planet image, Councilman Frank DiCicco has decided to introduce a bill that would ban non-biodegradable bags from supermarkets and pharmacies, citing pollution problems as his reasoning. Gotcha, Franks. Mom-and-pop stores would be exempt, however, so you can continue to watch plastic wind dances outside of Trax Deli. If this eco stuff turns you on, wait until Jim Kenney bans Styrofoam food containers. Cheese fries as you know them will need to find a new home.

KYW: BYOB In Your BYOBag

This entry was posted on Tuesday, September 18th, 2007 at 9:19 am.