Reusable Bags Create Health Hazzards? Plastic Bags Create WORLD HAZZARDS!

There comes a time when we all need to look at what is coming about with plastic bags and decide to put our foot down. As a blogger and business owner i am kept aware of the reusable bag world and news within it daily by daily Google alerts.  Until recently, they were looking surprisingly good and news on the reusable bag front was great.  California has signed a measure which may in fact ban plastic bags within the state all together!   CA will be the 1st state in the Union to actually do so. This is terrific news! This is why we are here working in this industry! Being a native Californian I am proud that the people of CA see the benefit in this.  I truly hope they stick to their guns and see this measure through. The time is now! 
Lately though, the news on the reusable bag front is completely alarming, shocking, and down right ridiculous!  What I am seeing is article after article about how reusable bags carry deadly germs and virus’s and people can die from using them. Upon first reading this my fricken jaw hit the floor and its just shocking! 

To me, there can only be 1 culprit can be behind it. That culprit would be the makers of the plastic bags themselves! I mean really, bringing your own bags to the market can now make you die! Ecoli virus among countless others!!!
Well, I tell you what……I myself have been using my own reusable bags going on my 5th year.  In all my carries,  eggs, poultry, vegetables, and anything else i may buy I have never, not once, even had a spill of any considerable size in one of my reusable bags!   If i did, I would simply take out the bottom plastic insert and wipe free any “contaminates” that may be there and we would then be free and clear of the problem.  If it were that bad, i would wash my washable reusable bag in cold water and line dry. 

Problem fixed.

It is clear to me that the makers of the plastic bags are acting purely from greed and cash money is their objective.  They do not care that coral reefs are dying by plastic bag strangle hold.  They do not care that the los Angeles River looks like the trash dump from the original movie Star Wars!  They don’t care that  plastic bags waive from trees in Central park like Christmas ornaments, they do not care that CA spends $30,000,000 dollars per year on trying to contain their plastic disaster and barely scrapes the top of it.

plastic bags have a strangle hold on our seas!

The bottom line is that plastic bags are one of our great plagues in the world and slowly but surely people are being made aware of it.  As rap group “Public Enemy” once said, “Don’t Belive the Hype!”  Its propaganda, and it simply isnt true.

If the plastic bag manufacturers had any real amo they would be showing us all the bacteria and sickness’s that have arose from places like Ireland and Austrailia who are bothworking on 10 years free of plastic bags.  If there were any truth in any of this they would maybe start there.

Bottom line, plastic bags hurt the Earth, stay strong, keep bringing your reusable bags, and dont believe the Hype!  It simply isnt true!

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