The problem is with packaging...
First my angle.
I am a Conservative with a mind all his own. I believe in limited government, and I don't believe that humans are causing global warming. Maybe that makes me a big dummy in the eyes of most people here but so be it.
Now I strongly believe in conservation of energy and conserving the use of resources. I believe in using techniques and technologies that use less. This is the responsible thing to do because, frankly speaking, humans are the Stewards of the earth.
Animals exist in the capacity they are instinctively programmed to. They don't consider how to improve their own environment, they simply use what is there and exist. They don't think at the level humans do, obviously so they cannot be Stewards of the planet, they are members, participants in the ecology.
Humans manipulate, create, and so on. Therefore we have a responsibility to conserve, to re-use and to find ways to exist in the natural world with an impact that is more beneficial than harmful.
I don't believe in a lot of government to CONTROL and DICTATE our lives.
That being said, if I had to champion one "non conservative" cause it would have to be recycling and conservation. Yes, those two make up one cause.
Plastic bags are fine, I have no issues with them if they are recycled.
But what about the myriad of other items we purchase that are constructed and packaged in such unfriendly manners towards being recycled?
Why do we not employ prisoners serving time for decades to operate this industry? No, instead they get three squares a day, smokes, weights, TV, and rights out the @$$. Put them to work, let them participate in the recycling process and let them benefit our economy and ecology in a measurable and tangible way.
When I see a seemingly simple matter of plastic bags going into a landfill I actually see a symptom of a much larger problem.
It all comes down to packaging and priorities!!!
