Do you ever feel, like a plastic bag, deserves the benefit of the doubt

According to an editorial in the San Jose Mercury News, California plans on banning plastic bags. Now, there is good evidence on how much production it takes to make it, how much oil, being environmentally dangerous, which is something I do understand and take into consideration. HOWEVER, whatever I’m going to say from here on out will not be logical, just pure emotion and only related to my selfish needs. I may get criticized or may be taken down through logic on this topic, but this is somewhat of me venting and opposing the ban of plastic bags.

Because of these “urban tumbleweeds,” they’re littering the parks and waterways. Whenever you bring a product, living organism, or anything, maintenance comes along with it. When you get a new dog you don’t expect it to clean itself or pick up its own droppings. When there are plastic bags lying around, people are educated enough where they should clean up their areas to produce a clean environment for their children and loved ones. Those involved in community service, if there are plastic bags left around and people are heading home, it shows they’re not doing a good enough job. It’s taking the easy way out of eliminating the bag and not changing the bad habits of people today.

Plastic bags may use oil for production, but what doesn’t? There are other things out there that use more than the plastic bags, yet the majority of us won’t even use those things. Plastic bags are more convenient in the sense of reusing them as trash bags, yack bags in the car, travelling light with clothes and/or shoes, putting them over your shoes in order to keep wherever you’re walking clean, and many more.

If it’s our tax dollars that are paying to clean up the areas, then we should pay less in taxes. If places aren’t cleaned up properly, then we’re being ripped off with our tax dollars because whatever we’re investing in, we don’t get anything back in return because of the lazy workers.

There are always unfortunate situations that come along, and with plastic bags, they could just fly out of trash bins or dumps, landing in the habitats of animals which could jeopardize their existence. However, this could be changed if things were properly disposed of or only worry about ourselves. We, the planet as a whole that uses plastic bags, need to play our parts equally and keep it clean. If people don’t play their part, it shows and people will blame the plastic bags instead of themselves, thinking that will get rid of the problem.