Opinion | Melissa Kravitz Hoeffner: 'We’d landed on the moon, the Beatles had broken up and Studio 54 was in full swing before the first plastic grocery bags were ever introduced in America.' - NBCNewsTHINK
Natan Dvir / Bloomberg via Getty Images filePlastic bags are so ubiquitous they’re almost invisible. We rely on them to carry everything from routine grocery purchases to one-off drugstore runs to food delivery and more. Unless you live somewhere where plastic bags are banned — like Hawaii — or taxed — such as in Washington D.C.
Our reliance on one-time-use plastic bags, however, is relatively new. We’d landed on the moon, the Beatles had recorded their last album and broken up, and Studio 54 was in full swing before plastic grocery bags were
United States Latest News, United States Headlines
Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.
The dating rules you have to follow from professional matchmaker Lara AspreyLara Asprey answered our burning questions about how to navigate dating in the modern world
Read more »
https://people.comGet the latest news about celebrities, royals, music, TV, and real people. Find exclusive content, including photos and videos, on PEOPLE.com.
Read more »
Plastic, plastic everywhere but not for African recyclersA sea of crumpled bottles spills across the courtyard of Lucy Luo Minghui's...
Read more »
Editorial: A plastic bottle ban that's so crazy it just might workS.F.'s ban on sales of water in plastic bottles is extreme. But extreme is what the plastic trash crisis demands (via latimesopinion)
Read more »
Green Turtles are eating trash bags thinking they're food, with young animals most likely to get confusedSeagrass and algae, some of their favourite foods, look like plastic.
Read more »