"Councilmembers hypocrites over plastic bag ban..."

The Garden Island newspaper recently published an article titled, “Residents torn over plastic bag ban.” This article tells it all, the story of a dysfunctional county council. This whole plastic bag ban mess should had been decided by the people of our great cosmic island, not seven overpaid narcissists who won a popularity contest.

The County of Kaua‘i in association with the Kaua‘i Humane society supplies free plastic bags at approximately six dispensers along the beautiful pedestrian trail. It’s ironic our dogs are allowed plastic for their feces, but we can’t use plastic for groceries or food items.

Trees are used to make paper bags. I thought we originally switched to plastics because we didn’t want to destroy the rain-forests.

We went 100 giant steps backward, the grocery stores are now using paper bags, 1,000 paper bags piled high, or 1,000 plastic piled high, guess which is smaller and costs less to freight?

If council is so concerned about the environment quit being hypocrites and ride a bike, walk, or bus to the next county council meeting, and donate your $500 a month car allowance toward the state budget crisis

note this blog appeared an an opinion article on 03-09-11 in the Kaua'i garden island news!
http://thegardenisland.com/news/opinion/mailbag/article_984b1cae-4a11-11e0-b53c-001cc4c002e0.html