{"id":282,"date":"2008-10-14T19:40:04","date_gmt":"2008-10-14T19:40:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/onecity\/2008\/10\/back-to-the-sack-does-banning-plastic-bags-lose-american-jobs.html"},"modified":"2008-10-14T19:40:04","modified_gmt":"2008-10-14T19:40:04","slug":"back-to-the-sack-does-banning-plastic-bags-lose-american-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/onecity\/2008\/10\/back-to-the-sack-does-banning-plastic-bags-lose-american-jobs.html","title":{"rendered":"Back to the Sack: Does banning plastic bags lose American jobs?"},"content":{"rendered":"

In doing research for the Back to the Sack project<\/a>, I have been running across a wide variety of arguments against banning plastic bags. The Wall Street Journal recently posted an article about the dangers of reusable shopping bags<\/a>. And on Oct 7th, 2008, amid fears of our economic crisis, Savetheplasticbag.com<\/a> published a press release announcing that “Banning plastic bags means banning 4,000 American manufacturing jobs and indirectly causing many more job losses.”
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\nI don’t think this is a valid argument against banning plastic bags (though I do think it is a good argument for manufacturing reusable bags in the United States). Mostly, I am just amazed that I can find websites that are purely dedicated to explaining why we should NOT ban plastic bags, but the information promoting a ban and\/or tax on plastic bags is scattered here and there on environmental websites. I think we need to review these pro-plastic bag websites and pull together a clear argument of why plastic bags need to be banned and\/or taxed while debunking these kinds of claims.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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