YES! We have to stop using non-biodegradable items.
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YES! But we need to think of much bigger ways to save the planet!
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Thom's Blog Is On the Move
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Hello All
Thom's blog in this space and moving to a new home.
Please follow us across to hartmannreport.com - this will be the only place going forward to read Thom's blog posts and articles.
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At Mondragon - both the mountain and the cooperative city - in Spain (written about in "Threshold" book)
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No brainer. They are horrible for the environment and completely unnecessary so why not.
Plastic bags are convenient and handy and can be reused for several things. And carting around sturdy, reusable bags is a pain. However, my inconvenience doesn't matter one tiny bit when it comes to the health of our planet! When I think about plastic bags suffocating our wildlife, all the fossil fuels used to make the bags in the first place, and the bags clogging our waterways and helping to create gigantic, floating masses of debri on our oceans...debri that kills ocean life...well, I just can't get all upset about my own, personal convenience. I will happily cheer the end of single-use plastic bags! I already have a back seat filled with sturdy, reusable bags that I use all the time. And it really isn't hard at all. And, even though I'm blond, it still only took me a couple of weeks to remember to carry my reusable bags back to the car when I've emptied them.
And, yes, we still need to think of every single way possible to save the only planet that we have!
I already use my own cloth bags when I shop for groceries, although I do use a few plastic ones for bagging cat litter. I'll have to figure another way to do this if/when the stores in my small upstate NY town finally stops bagging groceries in plastic. However the sooner they do, the better, as far as I'm concerned.