Published on Monday, August 25, 2008
By BOB PRATTE
Palm Springs is exercising its eco-friendly ways by considering a ban of plastic shopping bags.
In the name of reusable resources, I say plastic, not paper.
City Manager David Ready said a ban of the use of plastic bags is being analyzed by the resort town's Resource Conservation Commission. The commission is interested in banning plastic bags in the name of good environmental manners. Ready said the pros and cons of a plastic-bag ban will be studied before the commission makes a recommendation.
The litter of plastic bags blowing all over town is one reason for the interest in a ban. Mayor Steve Pougnet has pointed out that 19 billion plastic bags used annually in California contribute to filling landfills.
I think plastic bags have been badly maligned. True, they take precious petroleum to produce, foul waterways and snag wild creatures, but their paper cousins have faults too. Heavy equipment used to log trees burns fuel. Paper plants create stinky pollution
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