Environmentally Friendly Shopping Bags...Of Sugar

[tinselwolverine]

From coast to coast, folks.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2012/05/23/BA2I1OMJSB.DTL

http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/05/31...n-sugary-soft-drinks/?iid=nf-article-mostpop1

Let's see what the back and forth will be on THIS...or THESE, more appropriately, I guess...

 

[Michchamp]

I'm okay with it. Retailers can pass the minimal cost of paper bags along to consumers. some already do this. for example, Whole Foods; if you bring your own bags, you get something like a $0.10 discount per bag you save.

the article (as per usual) leaves out any more in depth discussion of the costs of using bags, pollution caused in their manufacture, the unsightliness of trash, the way they get stuck all over the place and don't dissolve, along with the cost of banning them.

The unsightliness/nuisance factor is probably difficult to put a cash value on, but given that I can't imagine this ban is going to really be THAT expensive to put in place, I think it's worth it.

the crying about sending jobs to china is silly; if we can make plastic bags here, we can make reusable ones too...

 

[cheeno]

Sugar is worse than heroin.

 

[Thumb]

Sugar is worse than heroin.

You mean heated and melted on a spoon and injected into your veins?

I don't know anyone who's ever mainlined caramel before.

 

[Mitchrapp]

Lol.

I love caramel.

 

[cheeno]

You mean heated and melted on a spoon and injected into your veins?

I don't know anyone who's ever mainlined caramel before.

Or you could just snort it. Needles are for junkies.

 

[Thumb]

Or you could just snort it. Needles are for junkies.

Man, didn't you see what happened to Uma Thurman in Pulp Fiction?

Snort that shit I'll have to drive you to Eric Stoltz's house in my classic Malibu and stab a bigass needle into your heart while Rosanna Arquette says "That was fuckin trippy".

 

[cheeno]

Man, didn't you see what happened to Uma Thurman in Pulp Fiction?

Snort that shit I'll have to drive you to Eric Stoltz's house in my classic Malibu and stab a bigass needle into your heart while Rosanna Arquette says "That was fuckin trippy".

We are still talking about sugar, aren't we?

 

[byco42]

We are rapidly approaching the age of Demolition Man.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dz4HEEiJuGo