BOLSAS DE PLASTICO

It is now illegal for stores in Mexico City to give customers merchandise in plastic bags. That's 20 million people who will not be lining their waste baskets with plastic bags. Some of us (Donna, Pete) know that many Mexicans put their toilet paper in waste baskets instead of in the toilet. A good thing, really, but. . . .

Mexico City joins China (the whole country!), Australia, Ireland, Bangladesh, Italy, South Africa and Mumbai in this effort to cut their use of plastic. What about the USA? Too socialist an idea?

It takes 12 million barrels of oil to make 30 billion bags. The US uses 84 billion bags a year.

Now let's visualize those US military officers sitting in air-conditioned tents in Afghanistan.