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Eco Geek -> Plastic, paper bags under attack in Seattle ->> WAY PAST DUE
Original Message
Posted on: Apr 04, 2008 4:21 pm
Subject: WAY PAST DUE
Author: Sarah Jackson
Joined: Nov 09, 2007 11:33 am Posts: 22
This is the first time Greg Nickels has done anything I approve of ... this is not premature lady, it is WAY PAST DUE. Pay attention, we are destroying the environment quicker than people who care can clean it up. We need to do something NOW, not at some to-be-decided point in the future.

Every grocery store I've been to takes anywhere from 5 to 15 cents off the bill for every plastic bag I DON'T use. I bought some of my carry bags for .89 apiece and got several free from Fred Meyer so your argument about poor little old ladies (which I am, by the way) doesn't hold water. All we have to do is work on the mindset a little to remember to carry some bags with us to the store. Fancy designer bags at $15 each are totally unnecessary, as a trip to any grocery store will prove. So spending around a dollar is not too much to ask I'd say, to help the planet and the creatures sharing it that we are strangling with our plastic.

You think they ought to be targeting other issues? So do I. This is presumably where they started and there is more to come I hope.

Cheryl Fontaine
Lake Stevens, Wash.
 
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