Tuesday, May 13, 2014
Sights are set on Plastic Bags - American Legislator
I'm sure you're aware of the "war" on plastic bags...
Apparently, as John Eick has posted at AmericanLegislator.com, it may not be so worth the effort:
"The truth is that plastic retail bags are 100 percent recyclable. You may have even deposited your bags or plastic wraps in the bins increasingly popping up outside grocery stores, for instance, which bag producers pick up and recycle.
Plastic bags are an environmentally friendly choice at the checkout, as the vast majority of plastic retail bags are made in the United States using high-density polyethylene (HDPE), a byproduct of natural gas, not oil. Additionally, plastic retail bags make up less than 0.5 percent of the U.S. municipal solid waste stream, according to the EPA."
