Danger, Will Robinson! The Plastic Bags Are Attacking!

It's been said that almost every house has a plastic "t-bag" filled with other plastic "t-bags." Ours does. We use them for various projects in order to save money. Yet, we're not blind to the number of bags we see floating down the street and in vacant lots. Many towns in various areas either have or are considering banning these ubiquitous plastic carry-alls.

Is it really a city's business? We believe if a town can ban smoking in public, it can surely ban plastic bags. Yet some in our state legislature want a law saying towns can't make laws governing these bags. That's right - a law to ban a law.

The legislation would also include a prohibition on banning Styrofoam cups, bowls, etc. Thank God. We don't know about you, but we often lie awake nights worrying about having to drink from a plastic tumbler at the convenience store.

Nathaniel Ledbetter of Rainsville introduced the ban ban in the legislature. He just wants the state to be uniform, he says. If he really wanted some practical uniformity, he would try for a law that requires cities to install traffic lights in a uniform manner (not some overhead, others on right side of road). Alas, that would be a useful law; our legislature would never pass such a thing.