Posted on 02/15/2017 at 01:01 PM
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I'm all for the bag rules. It means keeping that much more plastic out of the ecosystem and the waste stream. Plastic doesn't decompose, and there's a floating mass of it out in the Pacific ocean that isn't going to go away. Thousands of baby albatross chicks die every year from being fed plastic, as do sea turtles that mistake the bags for jellyfish. Europe has been charging for bags fo a long time, we had to pay for our bags in 1980 when we lived in Norway. It's not that difficult to bring a reusable shopping bag or a backpack and it's better for the environment. Yeah, I just ranted at you. No, I'm not sorry I did. What did you expect a ranger to do?