http://inhabitat.com/san-jose-bans-plastic-shopping-bags-biggest-ban-in-ca/ Green design & eco innovation for a better world Wed, 19 Jun 2013 21:48:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc http://inhabitat.com/san-jose-bans-plastic-shopping-bags-biggest-ban-in-ca/comment-page-1/#comment-349778 david.h.camacho@gmail.com Mon, 15 Aug 2011 20:16:35 +0000 http://inhabitat.com/?p=197901#comment-349778 Lazy reader and Stitches both sound LAZY to me. Just bring your own mug or plastic refillable jug. This way there's NO WASTE and no unnecessary time and money spent on making the plastic or paper cups! Not to mention "recycling" that junk. How greeeen is that? Lazy reader and Stitches both sound LAZY to me. Just bring your own mug or plastic refillable jug. This way there’s NO WASTE and no unnecessary time and money spent on making the plastic or paper cups! Not to mention “recycling” that junk. How greeeen is that?

]]> http://inhabitat.com/san-jose-bans-plastic-shopping-bags-biggest-ban-in-ca/comment-page-1/#comment-339457 Stitches Wed, 01 Jun 2011 00:11:50 +0000 http://inhabitat.com/?p=197901#comment-339457 Superior thinking demonstatred above. Thanks! Superior thinking demonstatred above. Thanks!

]]> http://inhabitat.com/san-jose-bans-plastic-shopping-bags-biggest-ban-in-ca/comment-page-1/#comment-283731 lazyreader Thu, 16 Dec 2010 00:35:17 +0000 http://inhabitat.com/?p=197901#comment-283731 I dont see what the big deal is about plastic bags. I use reusable bags to, but if I buy more stuff than I can hold, Two plastic bags isn't goin' to end the world. It's the same idea as to mugs versus disposable cups. It takes 1000x more energy to make a ceramic mug than a paper/plastic cup of similar volume. Drink 1-2 cups a day & it'll take over a year to get to your 1001st cup and compensate for not using 1000 cups. Should the mug break after say 200 cups, you'd have been better off using those throw aways and the mug takes 1000 times as much space in a landfill than the cups. Cups can be crushed/shredded while the mug can't so easily. Reusable plastic cups or mugs are actually use less energy and emit less polution, since they don't mine for clay, glaze and kiln fire it. Don't many clays contain lead or uranium. How greeeeeeen is that. I dont see what the big deal is about plastic bags. I use reusable bags to, but if I buy more stuff than I can hold, Two plastic bags isn’t goin’ to end the world. It’s the same idea as to mugs versus disposable cups. It takes 1000x more energy to make a ceramic mug than a paper/plastic cup of similar volume. Drink 1-2 cups a day & it’ll take over a year to get to your 1001st cup and compensate for not using 1000 cups. Should the mug break after say 200 cups, you’d have been better off using those throw aways and the mug takes 1000 times as much space in a landfill than the cups. Cups can be crushed/shredded while the mug can’t so easily. Reusable plastic cups or mugs are actually use less energy and emit less polution, since they don’t mine for clay, glaze and kiln fire it. Don’t many clays contain lead or uranium. How greeeeeeen is that.

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