[Mrs. Robinson]

Originally Posted by LittleDog

My wife and I have probably about 15 cloth bags that we use when food shopping. What I have noticed is that the majority of the people that I see shopping at the supermarkets are using plastic bags. With all the talk about the indestructibility of plastic and the huge amount of plastic in the oceans it would seem to me that people would be aware of the problem and switch to cloth bags. I have a feeling that in the near future that these plastic bags will be illegal which I believe in some cities they have been outlawed already.

Any plastic bags that we get (newpapers) are put in the recycling receptacles at the supermarkets.

John

John -- You are 100% correct but worse than what you've said is the requirement for all residents' trash to be in plastic bags!

A really BIG Village pet peeve of mine. And when I say big, I mean BIG!

The Villages requirement is for plastic trash bags and in addition -- they want certain types of bag, to boot!
Doesn't that get anyone's ire up?

Anywhere else in the country in most urban areas, trash cans are provided which are designed for the trucks to automatically pick up the cans.
Do Villagers have any idea what these bags are doing to our environment and landfills?
Do Villagers have any idea how many plastic trash bags this is per week, per month, per year???
Do any Villagers care?
I say this because I have seen threads where residents do not want trash cans. This makes me wonder about that kind of lazy mentality which is loaded with lame excuses for not wanting them.

Then there's the developer who makes money from the trash collection.
Then there's the developer who does not want to invest in what it would cost him to provide the cans, recycle bins and trucks.

I would love to see Waste Management come in and do the job.
They know how to run the trash business and do it right.
Alas -- it will never happen; there aren't enough residents who care enough to make sure that some kind of change takes place.

The current trash situation is very sad at too many different levels.