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California governor signs law banning all plastic shopping bags at grocery stores.
(www.voanews.com)
Great! Now do other 49.
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As long as it also requires them to carry paper bags that's perfect
As long as you don't expect them to be free
Canada works pretty well without them. If you forget your bags though you have to buy more.
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good. My balls are already maxed out on microplastics
Can we ban plastics in the fishing industry next?
I know little to nothing about fishing on a commercial scale. What are viable alternatives to plastics in that industry?
What asshole downvoted a legit question of someone asking for more info on something they admit they don't know much about...?
People do this all the time, and it's super annoying. I'd love for someone to explain why they downvote an honest question.
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One viable alternative is to use nothing and let the fish live their lives.
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Hemp it would be a viable alternative due to its rot resistant properties.
Hemp was used as the primary material for this purpose until the oil industry helped feed the anti-cannabis movement.
Interesting. I was thinking more about lines and lures. It didn't occur to me that such a large amount of ocean trash would be plastic based rope and nets.
if you ever watch a documentary of the great pacific garbage patch it usually shows the most rampant and dangerous items from aquatic life tends to be discarded fishing nets. They all suck though, just nets suck more and get cut off all the time.
Commercial fishing is terrible not only for the environment but leaves a large amount of trash in the ocean. It creates a ton of micro plastics and fucks up entire biomes.
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Nice to see California catching up to Colorado.
In Austria, we banned plastic bags ~ 5 years ago. We only have paper bags that are ~ 70c each. Before that we had 30c plastic bags.
Oh, and that is the price per bag. People here just get some high quality bags, baskets… and use them over and over.