ruv's rant........

 

plastic bags…..trying to understand the logic here….almost everything we buy is shrink-wrapped in plastic, but the grocery stores charge us for a plastic bag.  The same grocery store that doesn’t charge us for the plastic bags we use to put our fruits and vegetables in.  Am I missing some sort of logic here?

 

So there is a great attempt to reduce the plastic that ends up in the landfill.  But doesn’t almost everyone put their weekly garbage in large black plastic bags for the garbagemen to take away?  Again, am I missing the logic here?   

 

We throw food scraps in the green bin which is sent to an anaerobic digester where micro-organisms break down food waste in the absence of oxygen. ... This process produces biogas, a mixture of methane and carbon dioxide which can then be used to produce heat, electricity or transport fuels.

 

If we sent the food to the landfill,  it rots and releases methane.  See above.

 

But what do we do with all the plastic shrink wrap?  It just goes to the landfill and stays there forever.

 

Shouldn’t we be recycling the plastic wrap and bags, and let mother nature take care of the food scraps. 

 

Am I missing the logic here?