My state has plastic shopping bag bans across (most of?) the state and I feel like it’s completely backfired.
Now, instead of those thin plastic bags everyone used to get, people are charged 20 cents for a “reausable” bag, which is still a shitty bag that no one seriously reuses or wants, but it’s thick plastic, like thick, crunchy, and indestructible. Maybe double the plastic waste.
I TRY to remember my (actual) reusable bags, I really do. But sometimes I forget and I wind up with these big thick bags I don’t want to reuse and wind up throwing out or “recycling” (which probably means shippibg then to the Philippines).
I also do curbside grocery pickup frequently and the ONLY option is to get those thick “reusable” bags with your order. Otherwise the grocery employee (who can’t accept tips) will need to individually place each item in my car one at a time.
The thin plastic disposable bags were better. Paper bags would be better. This 20 cents for a “reausable” bag loophole is total bullshit.
I think it’s important to remember that re-using something like that a couple times is even better than using the recycling bin. I love those things because I end up with a small heavy duty trash bag for around my apartment which comes in handy surprisingly often. Of course it’s not perfect, I also try to remember my really reusable bags.
The bags I get from Fred Meyer are so awkwardly shaped and crinkly I haven’t been able to find another use for them. I used to reuse the old plastic bags all the time. To scoop cat litter into, small garbage can liners… but these are wide and shallow, you can’t even tie them closed. They’re so ridiculous they barely hold groceries.
I remember a while ago reading that the thick plastic bags are worse, because they take so much longer to break down, you have to re-use them something like 1000 times to make them more environmentally friendly than using a thin one that degrades much quicker. This was based on the types of plastic bags in use at UK supermarkets. The thick ones were marketed as ‘bags for life’, which they’re not.
I don’t know what’s dumber: This or listening to Democrats try and convince me I didn’t see our esteemed president’s brain melt in public on national television.
Both sides have their cultist devotees. That’s how we got into this mess.
“It’s a no brainer,” mum Laura Melling said after she decided to take her daughters out of school during term-time to save £3,000 on their family holiday.Mrs Melling and her husband Paul from Leyland, Lancashire, were each fined £120 after taking their children out of primary school for a trip to Egypt.The nurse, whose TikTok about the fine has been viewed 1.4 million times, said the term-time holiday ban was “ridiculous”.The Department of Education said school attendance was the key to giving “every child the best start in life”.
Lancashire County Council, which issued the fine, said it always encouraged schools to work closely with parents to reduce unauthorised absences.
“A holiday can feel like a small period of time to families, but this is having a big impact and we don’t want that to be the case,” he said.
“All of us within the education sector are imploring parents to recognise the detrimental impact it can have when children are not consistently in school.”
It is harder for schools to hold the line that every day missed has an impact on education, because bluntly families no longer believe it is that stark.
Yet this week research has confirmed that tests and exam results are showing the pandemic led to a widened gap between children from the highest and lowest income families.That suggests missing days at school will have a bigger impact on some children than others.At the same time, it’s clear how much the cost of living crisis is hitting families, making a trip away during school holidays ever more expensive.Some parents may decide that £80 is still cheaper than a family trip in the UK or abroad in July or August.
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In a way it’s a classic ponzi scheme so in that sense it’s not that novel. But this Dr. Ruja, as she was known by people who “bought” OneCoin, sold herself and OneCoin super well and took full advantage of the crypto craze. The scale and then disappearance are crazy.
Maybe this is in the article but I think the leading theory is that she’s in the UAE or Qatar or something. I assume she can’t really travel but she can just live like an actual queen over there and those governments won’t care about where he money came from.
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