Plastic Bag Ban Takes Effect: Sometimes There's Just So Much Beauty In The World
Au revoir, plastic bags! I'll miss seeing you wave blissfully from the branches of trees, line my bathroom garbage can and clog storm drains. Yes, it's finally happened. Beginning tomorrow, big grocery stores will no longer be asking 'paper or plastic,' as the city's ordinance takes effect, and six months from now, pharmacies will follow suit.
Some, including Cala Foods and Safeway have already made the switch, offering low cost beach-bag type totes as a substitute.
In the immortal words of Ricky Fitts from American Beauty: "This bag was just dancing with me, like a little kid begging me to play with it ... sometimes there's just so much beauty in the world, I feel like I can't take it and my heart is just going to cave in."
I know how you feel Ricky. We all do.
-- Brian Bernbaum
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