May Action: Reducing Plastic Round 2

We voted at dinner on Sunday and decided to focus on plastic for another month. One of the things that influenced our decision is that Madison is introducing legislation to ban throwing away clean plastic bags.

Although we excited that Madison is concerned about plastic bags...we are disappointed with the proposed legislation.

• It will be difficult( impossible!) to enforce.
• It may actually increase use of plastic bags...since now it will be easier to recycle.
• Since it is OK to throw out "dirty" plastic bags...we still have plastic going into landfills and lakes.

It is a stop gap measure. Right now very few plastic bags are recycled..the hope is that this would decrease the amount of plastic bags in land fills and oceans by increasing the amount that gets recycled. What do others think?