Green Thing II

I can remember when plastic grocery bags first came to be!  You see, I was a "bag boy" at a local supermarket...

Supposedly, this was better for the environment, as we weren't cutting down trees to make the paper bags anymore!  Oh how times and arguments have changed!

We went from, "Do you need a double bag, ma'am?" to "Paper or plastic, please?" to "Did you bring your own bags!?"  You know, I actually recall people bringing those brown paper bags back into the store to be reused... and when we went to plastic, they still brought them in and had us bag into them first, then set into the plastic...

There was a time that the only thing put into plastic bags was your ice cream and other frozen foods... just so as it melted on the way home and the condensation formed, it wouldn't affect the integrity of the paper bag and cause it to rip/fail/disintegrate as you carried it in to your house...

So as the plastic bags fill our landfills... I think back and wonder...

Who pushed for those damn plastic bags over the paper ones anyways!?  And as our forests are overgrown, causing fire hazards now, the whole fire suppression mismanagement issue is another blog...

I guess the whole recycle thing failed.  I can send a paper bag to the landfill, and it is degraded, absorbed, gone, reduced to its essential parts in a few years.  Heck, as an organic source of nutrients, it might even feed a tree someday...  I send a plastic bag there... it's there for supposedly hundreds or even thousands of years?! Try leaving one of those plastic bags out in the sun for a few months... turns to dust!

And those "green" bags... most made outside of America... check the lead levels in them!  More toxic to the environment than even the CFL's with all the mercury, which are also mostly made outside of America too!

I guess as hard as we humans try to screw up this world...

As hard as we try to influence things, change things, and make things better...

We are up against a bigger power and force!

Maybe we should just leave things alone, as they are, and just do what we do.  Let the balance return.

That's a concept that won't be accepted anytime soon...


Peace!