By Steve Rose
Re “Obsessed Enviros Are Choosy About Which Bags to Prohibit”
[img]2415|right|||no_popup[/img]I am confused.
As a younger man, I was told by environmentalists to use plastic bags to save the trees. Now it is against the law to use certain types of plastic bags?
When we need a paper bag that grocery stores used to give us free, now stores charge 10 cents each — and split by the markets and unions for their benefit.
What happened to the idea of recycling all plastic? Simple laws that ban things can be made into job-creating opportunities through developing a value to plastic just as the government did for aluminum cans and plastic bottles.
Oh!
My error. That would lead to a free enterprise solution. More and more people throughout the world are seeking free enterprise while we in Califonia want to kick back and do a little California Dreamin’…
Mr. Rose, President/CEO, Culver City Chamber of Commerce, may be contacted at ssssteve@culvercitychamber.com
