Where’s my bag?
Everybody’s talking about loosing the carrier bag. A town in the UK has already implemented this: shops no longer give out bags. Instead, people have to walk around with boxes or canvas bags just in case they decide to shop for something on the spot.
This is because plastic bags are bad for the environment (mind you, so are humans, but we don’t go around disposing of them permanently (at least in a systematic way). Plastic bags simply don’t die: when you dump them, they take forever and a day to disintegrate (if they do, at all).
The cardboard box and the canvas bags are set to become daily essentials. The fashion industry will soon begin making sexy cardboard boxes and canvas bags that set your hormones on fire.
If you ask me, I think the carrier bag is a damn handy invention. It prevents you from dropping your shopping all over the place.
Why then, can’t we make bio-degradable carrier bags? This would solve the problem! We could go shopping AND carry our shopping around in carrier bags!
Is nobody thinking?
We can take the caffeine out of coffee; the fat out of food; the enjoyment out of life… and you’re telling me we can’t make a bio-degradable bag?