Commentary on plastic bag ban

In the post Plastic Bag Ban plastic bag ban, the author does a good job of clearly making her argument on why she disagrees with the new ban on plastic ban. However, I disagree with her position because I think environmental protection is important, and this law is a simple, and effective in moving us in that direction.

 The post stated several reasons why the ban is a problem, such as it is a problem for peoples health and there is an increase in theft, but I think those issues have solutions that can be easily resolved and don’t necessarily call for a halt in the halt of plastic bags. 

Tamara was very informative in her facts about contamination from dirty reusable bags, but I believe people have the common sense to see a spill and clean it up.  Like everything else, people need to be conscious about germs and contamination.  We all know that washing our hands reduces our chances of illness, and that using good hygiene when cooking reduces our chances of food borne illnesses.  It shouldn’t be difficult to keep our reusable bags clean.  Also, it is not just food we are carrying.  All shopping is done with these bags, so that issue would not even arise unless it is food.  In that, I felt the post was not thorough. 

Secondly, the problem for businesses the author claims is more theft.  Businesses must rise to this occasion.  For the sake of striving for a better future, businesses could easily implement better loss prevention policies to alleviate this problem.  They should not rely on plastic bags to eliminate their theft. 

Overall, I thought this post was good, well organized and to the point.