Welcome to a new friend

I’m writing this about a pretty young lady named Ryfka who is just joining the ranks of the green nuisances, us folks who go around evangelizing about the evil of plastic bags. She lives in Kent, which is down the road from Seattle in Washington State. As her blog has yet to begin to roll, here’s what she’s going to write later today at http://20six.co.uk/seattlegirl1 : “Puget Sound” In Trouble Residents of Seattle and Canada have discarded millions of gallons of unrefined sewage and some of the most awful toxic chemicals imaginable into the beautiful Puget Sound, damaging what was once one of the United State’s richest ecosystems Negligent residents have over fished, poisoning much-loved Orcas, ruined shoreline habitation and due to the waste of discarded plastic, pop-cans (ever so popular with the teenagers), and glass bottles the devastation resumes. Soon we will live in a garbage heap…unless, people in Washington stepped up and did they daily due by using nature-friendly and cost effective products that are reusable such as cloth bags. Instead of killing trees for paper carriers or using harmful plastic bags that most of us don’t recycle, cloth seems like a great starting point and a stepping stone to a cleaner, unpolluted world. Since the beginning of March, supermarkets, stores, and small shops in Great Britain have been forced to charge shoppers 9 pence or an approximate 15 cents tax on each plastic bag that a consumer would use for his/her purchase. The initiative on the bag-tax was introduced as an attempt to control the litter and pollution problem created by so many people throwing away their plastic shopping bags, and thus far it appears to be effective. Results? Shoppers are now switching back to the good-ol’ cloth carriers just to save a few hard earned bucks at the checkout counter. If countries such as the UK are profiting on this simple-effectual idea, then why isn’t the United States jumping on it? Since we are, according to the entire world, the largest waste producers, such a straightforward and uncomplicated tax would solve many of our waste issues. I live in Washington, one of the most beautiful states of America, I can tell you personally that I have seen a gross amount of plastic being distributed at just grocery stores. On an average 200 plastic bags are given out at a single food-store everyday in Seattle…this alone should start to alarm people. I think its time we step up as the largest and most powerful country in the world and fix the big problems first. This one, its one of the biggest problems we have. It will kill us as surely as any terrorist can. You can bet on it. As a citizen of this beautiful northwest, I want to tell the folks who run Washington sate that I’d like to see a tax on plastic bags. Its not going to be popular but its going to save our earth! Well said, Ryfka! Not only is she pretty, this girl thinks! I wish there were a million more like her. That’s what our mission is folks, keep it clean! Use the products we have on www.badlani.com/bags/ .That’s why we make ‘em.