{"id":176,"date":"2007-04-29T12:16:27","date_gmt":"2007-04-29T18:16:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=176"},"modified":"2007-04-29T12:17:37","modified_gmt":"2007-04-29T18:17:37","slug":"ban-the-bag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=176","title":{"rendered":"Ban the Bag!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More places are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2007\/WORLD\/europe\/04\/29\/britain.plastic.ap\/index.html\">banning plastic bags<\/a>.  Of course, there&#8217;s a reason paper bags are more expensive:  they consume more resources when produced.  And we do not, by the way, have a shortage of landfill space, photogenic garbage barges not withstanding.  The next millenium of trash could be stored in an area smaller than Rhode Island.<\/p>\n<p>Penn and Teller have an excellent program on the myths revolving around recycling and trash.  Replacing plastic bags with paper ones is <em>bad<\/em> for the environment, not good for it.  But, like all environmental crusades, we have a bunch of scientific and busines ignorami pushing a popular policy because it sounds good.<\/p>\n<p>This is what happens when you empower government.  Decisions are made for political reasons, not moral, scientific or economic ones.  That&#8217;s a bad way of doing things.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More places are banning plastic bags. Of course, there&#8217;s a reason paper bags are more expensive: they consume more resources when produced. And we do not, by the way, have a shortage of landfill space, photogenic garbage barges not withstanding. The next millenium of trash could be stored in an area smaller than Rhode Island. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=176\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ban the Bag!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BzKF-2Q","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}