Earth Day 2015
The Waco Friends
of Peace will celebrate Earth Day 2015 with distribution of FREE reusable
shopping bags at the Downtown Farmers Market in Waco on Saturday, April 18th. The
organization will provide the large grocery-type bags from 9 am until 1 pm at
the Market, 400 S. University
Parks Drive. The bags are embossed with the
message: COMBAT CLIMATE CHANGE—AVOID PLASTIC. The use of reusable bags
instead of plastic shopping bags helps combat climate change by eliminating the
consumption of fossil fuels required in raw materials for the bags, and the
energy required to produce and ship the bags.
Only a small
percentage of plastic bags undergoes recycling. In addition, use of
reusable bags avoids local plastic litter, and decreases the massive plastic contamination
of the oceans, which has created plastic islands, and causes the
deaths of many fish, marine mammals, and birds.
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When you can convince the general public to wash their filthy hands after using the public restrooms then and only then will I believe that the reusable cloth bags are a good idea. What makes anyone think with toilets habits demonstrated that anyone of the same mentality would ever wash those bags? All it'd take is a good hot day in car and fresh cut raw meat to brew up a good batch of botulism & E-coli virus. And remember the juvenile toilet habits? With those bags now everywhere we shop what would the likelihood of hepatitis seeing a public comeback?
ReplyDelete1)each person supplies their own bag, so you as a shopper would not be using the same bags as others.
Delete2)if individuals did not wash their bags, any transmission of germs could only occur through the hands of cashiers who handle the bags.
but such transmission may occur now as people handle grocery items that are also handled by cashiers.
3)if this was a real problem, there should have been some documented disease outbreaks by now from the multiple
cities who use reusable bags. I am not aware of such outbreaks.
1)each person supplies their own bag, so you as a shopper would not be using the same bags as others.
Delete2)if individuals did not wash their bags, any transmission of germs could only occur through the hands of cashiers who handle the bags.
but such transmission may occur now as people handle grocery items that are also handled by cashiers.
3)if this was a real problem, there should have been some documented disease outbreaks by now from the multiple
cities who use reusable bags. I am not aware of such outbreaks.