Bag the bag
Here you go, lisa b and Dr. Write: bag the bag! 
Bwooop!
The trio vs. the pirate-ladyman Recently lis opined that no native Utard remembers Lighthouse 20, the kid show that was broadcast on UHF channel 20. Now I have a slight dispute with lis, in that I remember the pirate on the show was played by a woman, and she recalls someone very different (a man, I presume). Now Lighthouse 20 was not by any means my favorite show (hell I think it replaced Gillagan's Island!), but I do remember it--not really fondly but I remember it. The real purpose of my writing is that I made the comparison of Lighthouse 20 to Hotel Balderdash--a show that apparently ran for 10 years on channel four here in SLC. Now this show was the bomb; not only did it start at 6:00 am 6:45 am and show nothing but 30's-late 40's Warner Brothers cartoons (you know, Bugs and Daffy, but not Porky Pig and certainly not that crap WB churned out from the 50s onward.) These cartoons, of course, were made for adults and the humor was mostly sophisticated in a slapstick kind...
I like "insidious global tumbleweeds." Bag the bag! I have. Now how do we get our city to ban plastic bags?
ReplyDeleteIn Ireland, they started charging for plastic bags. Now everyone brings their own!
I do like that line too, Dr.
ReplyDeleteI think charging is a good way of getting folks not to use such bags, but possible a better way would be to make a deposit on them: that way people won't treat them as trash but as a commodity. I spent a large portion of my boyhood collecting bottles for their deposits. The deposit, of course, didn't stop people from tossing them out recklessly, but it inspired me to go clean them up. Imagine if we put a deposit on plastic of all kinds. Birds and sea life would not be the main collectors of it then.
In any case, I think the best way to address this issue is to talk to your council member and your mayor. Rocky strove to get bottled water out of SLC. Maybe Becker can get plastic bags tossed.
I will say, however, that I am heartened in this issue that Smiths and Albertsons both give credit to those who use reusable bags (along with traditionally conservation-friendly grocers like Whole Foods.) It would be great to see clothiers also offer said discounts.
"insidious global tumbleweeds"--a great line that says it all. Must bag the bag. We do save our bags and then use them as garbage bags. does that count for something? of course we can't quite keep up and probably, sometimes, once in awhile throw a few away.
ReplyDeletep.s. sorry--somehow missed Dr W's note of that line.
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