Mama gnome waits with bated breath to see what will happen to Assembly Bill 1998 this Friday the 13th, August 13.
Friday the 13th could either be a lucky or unlucky day for the environment.
AB 1998, written by Julia Brownley, Democrat-Santa Monica, would make California the first state to ban single use plastic bags for grocers starting in 2012.
And this Friday, the bill must be approved or it will die and Plastic Bag Monster triumphs.
If the bill is approved and is signed by the governor, supermarkets and other large retailers are prohibited from using single use plastic bags starting in 2012.
In 2013, that ban would extend to smaller grocers and convenience stores using plastic bag minions as well.
Plastic Bag Monster is the bane of Mama gnome's existence. She has battled against this monster time and time again.
Perhaps one of the most memorable was the battle of 2009 when Mama gnome succored by her gnome family battled against the Plastic Bag Monster on a sandy beach.
The gnome family was overwhelmed by cigarette butt monster and other plastic bag minions including styrofoam cups and little pieces of unrecognizable plastic scrap minions.
Just how big is the Plastic Bag Monster?
A million bags?
No.
A hundred million bags?
No.
Okay, I'll try one billion.
Nope again.
Try NINETEEN BILLION.
Californians use 19 Billion plastic bags A YEAR!
And if we were thinking they were getting recycled, Plastic Bag Monster has pulled the plastic over our eyes, because only a small fraction of that 19 billion gets recycled.
Only 5 percent of those bags get recycled.
So 95 percent of 19 billion bags end up where?
In our waterways, in landfills, in our deserts, our rivers, our forests, inside marine animals, in our oceans, disintegrating...NOT BIODEGRADING. They've taken up to creating their own evil lairs. One of the more notorious one is the Great Pacific Garbage Patch
Plastic bag monster and his minions become tiny plastic pieces mistaken for food by birds and marine animals.
And guess who eats the marine animals? Humans.
Mama gnome's blog has a running counter of how many plastic bags are used every second in the world.
It's a scary counter. Think of how much plastic the fish eat. Think of how much plastic we eat.
Here's a video of a Plastic Bag Monster trying to weasel his way out of the ban.
video from: danegolden
2012 is Plastic Bag Monster's Reckoning.
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