Reuse This Bag Supports Assembly Bill 68!
No commentsCalifornia state assemblymember Julia Brownley is on a mission to reduce the amount of disposable shopping bags being wasted and littered across the landscape every day in California, and she has a plan: Assembly Bill 68, a bill which would assign a 25-cent fee to plastic, paper, and compostable grocery bags in an effort to [...]
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Paper Isn’t the Answer
1 comment so farWith all of the anger built up around disposable plastic bags and the hype built up to get them off the market, it isn’t hard to make a leap to the assumption that paper bags are the eco-savvy answer. Not so fast — the production process of paper is, in truth, just as costly and [...]
Riverside County Enjoys a Good False Dichotomy (Also, Boats)
1 comment so farFALSE DICHOTOMY (n.) — A fallacy committed when the arguer claims that his conclusion is one of only two options, when in fact there are other possibilities. The arguer then goes on to show that the ‘only other option’ is clearly outrageous, and so his preferred conclusion must be embraced.
In contrast to yesterday’s update, some [...]
Huffington Post Weighs In on Shopping Bags
No commentsWe know that that paper and plastic bags aren’t exactly born of the best conditions. But when all is said and done, how much do we really know about the step-by-step process of making our disposable transport containers? Are we simply repeating rhetoric, or do we know how bad things really are?
Last night, premiere [...]
