The saying paper or plastic is now a thing of the past. “Next time bring your bag,” the cashier tells a customer at the grocery store.
Tuesday, January 11, 2011 marks the official beginning of a new way to shop on Kauai and Maui. “I love it, I love it, I think its great for the environment,” says Barbara Morgan. “A lot better for the environment and a lot less noisy,” says one Kauai shopper.
Maui was the first county in the state to approve a ban on plastic shopping bags in 2008 followed by Kauai a year later — the only exception, plastic used to bag meat, fruits, vegetables and dry cleaning.
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Ban Plastic Bags and Reduce Plastic Use! So glad that this is a change we can make and that some locations are changing for the better!
it’s not all that great considering the fact that Maui gives out PAPER bags in place of the plastic ban…not a great alternative if you ask me. Sure, we now save animals from the plastic danger and paper bags are bio-degradable, but it takes so much more energy–coal burning in Hawaii–just to make these bags AND how many more trees are we willing to kill? Just to supply our island with free bags? If we’re talking about saving the environment and doing what’s good for it, why should we introduce killing the trees that help with our oxygen and absorbing our pollution.
If Maui wanted to truly be “green” we should be looking into no longer importing non-biodegradable plastic like toothbrushes, trash liners, etc. and especially stop trying to turn to killing trees just for us to have bags.