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Squinch

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5. And the plastic bags aren't handled? Do they just fill themselves up and then waft

Reply to Blueplanet (Original post)

Mon Mar 9, 2020, 05:29 PM

Mar 2020

through the air to the car?

This is dopey.

And guess what: there's plastic in every morsel of food you eat and in the soil and the birds and the fish and the animals. There's even a continent of plastic in the Pacific.

So, um, no.

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Lift the Ban on Plastic Bags-help curb the spread of the virus [View all] Blueplanet Mar 2020 OP

... handmade34 Mar 2020 #1

Use paper bags marlakay Mar 2020 #2

Disagree... Boxerfan Mar 2020 #3

Womp womp. /nt frazzled Mar 2020 #4

And the plastic bags aren't handled? Do they just fill themselves up and then waft Squinch Mar 2020 #5

Do not keep them WA-03 Democrat Mar 2020 #6

The virus survives longer on plastic than paper so I don't Mike 03 Mar 2020 #7

Thank you Mike 03 Blueplanet Mar 2020 #10

Don't you thoroughly wash all produce before cooking or eating it? karynnj Mar 2020 #13

Maybe what you do is in Canada Bev54 Mar 2020 #8

Be more concerned about all the food packaging that is moonscape Mar 2020 #9

I'm sure you've witnessed a cashier or two lick his/her finger in order to separate/open a Goodheart Mar 2020 #11

No. maxsolomon Mar 2020 #12

gosh no. Voltaire2 Mar 2020 #14

For further discussion: Blueplanet Mar 2020 #15