Todd and Gus Gates of the Surfrider Foundation debate the plastic bag ban on Populations TV.
A special thanks to Jim Winkle and Populations TV
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It is interesting that Gus backed away from environmental damage and would only focus on environmental litter.
Surfrider is willing to make everybody pay a “fee” to stop the litter pigs from littering. He is willing to have “big Brother” legislate our lives.
As Todd pointed out, why wouldn’t every store support the bill, it adds bottom line dollars to their pockets. It is a regressive fee that hurts the low income person more.
Along the road I Live by I see cans and bottles, which are recyclable and have a deposit. I see soft drink cups, paper food wrappers etc. all recyclable. I have yet to see plastic bags blowing around on the road or in my field. Lets ban all materials that can be litter and possibly wash to the ocean.
Hello! Thanks for participating in the interview with Gus from the Surfrider Foundation! Your interview definitely brought some new perspectives to my mind.
From the very beginning I always thought that it would be good to ban plastic bags but to stick a price a paper bags wasn’t the right solution. I’m glad you said a similar comment. I can say I’m not great when it comes to political situations but I can understand what you say about government getting more control when banning a product completely and putting a minimum price on the alternative. That I can understand and see part of the long term situation.
I’m also glad you said that it’s not that plastic bags exist it’s that people litter. And we should focus more so on that problem.
And I believe you also said that plastic bags are not the biggest part of the plastic/trash problem. And to a comment made earlier, yes, while I do see plastic bags on the street, I see more plastic cups (especially the red ones), plastic bottle, glass bottles, and surprisedly balloons (on the beach) littered around the area.
Again thanks for the interview. For me I found it to widen my opinions and found it educational. Thanks!
Great job, Todd! That guy was full of it when he started talking about the durability of paper bags. You did good to bring up the rain as well. I have to take public transit a lot, and I can tell you that paper bags rip. I usually do try to bring reusable bags, but they really stink when it comes to having raw meat products in them because they always seem to leak, even when I use plastic bags to wrap the meat. One time I didn’t bring enough “cloth” bags with me to the store Fred Meyer, and I was given a paper bag which was very hard for me to carry. I think it’s funny because environmentalists are always talking about how we should use public transit and how they want us to move in this direction for Portland. Also, that guy Gus was also full of it when he said that he doesn’t think that Oregonians purposefully litter. Take a trip down East Stark Street as one enters Rockwood, and there is plenty of litter over there. Few plastic bags…lots of other crap. This stinks because I can avoid shopping at Fred Meyer, which has eliminated plastic bags at checkouts, but I can’t avoid shopping entirely.