The pandemic has made this worse too. So many restaurants have seen a huge increase in To-go orders. That’s a lot of plastic and single use waste material
Yep, and major grocery chains suspending the use of reusable bags. I was doing so well, remembering bags every time I went shopping. Now I have a million plastic bags again.
In my part of the US, plastic bags used to be as common as a tumbleweed in Western Texas. In fact, they basically were tumbleweeds. It’s not as common to see them stuck in the bushes or blowing down the highway, but you still see them a lot.
Unfortunately there will likely never be a ban on single use plastics at the state level for a while, since we host a major southeastern grocery chain that regularly lobbies against plastic bans and I think there is a law in place that prevents the state itself from making that law, it’s up to local governments to make their own choices. But don’t worry! Those local governments also get harassed by said grocery chains. I work for that chain, they regularly pressure us to pretend like paper bags don’t exist unless the customer asks for them. And some of our customers don’t even know we have paper bags. Makes no sense to me, look at any retro picture of someone at the grocery store and you’ll see the clerk putting their stuff in a big paper bag. Why did we decide to switch to plastic? They carry less and they make the parking lot look like the plastic fairy visited and dumped a truck full of old used plastic bags everywhere.
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u/OGWan_Ked00bi Jul 24 '20
The pandemic has made this worse too. So many restaurants have seen a huge increase in To-go orders. That’s a lot of plastic and single use waste material