Plastic Bags

May 21, 2007

That Town Cleanup Day last Saturday was the easiest one in memory.

With the snowpack at near nothin' there wasn't much around except the usual and astonishing number of plastic bags blowing in the branches of the aspen tangles.

I've had it with plastic bags. Australia outlawed 'em years ago. San Francisco, Oakland and Berkeley are going to ban them.

A guy goes to Vons to get three cans of beans and he gets three plastic bags, doubled, to carry them, home. Go figure that one. After a while, you just kind of get used to it, I guess.

Someone goes to Rite Aid for a four-pack of batteries, and he gets a plastic bag.

It wouldn't take much for the Town Council to ban those nasty things. It'd be the right thing to do. It would clean up our town.

I swear, we get Vons, Rite Aid and Carl's Jr. in line, we'd only need an hour or two every spring to clean up the whole town.

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