{"id":18179,"date":"2010-08-18T21:29:01","date_gmt":"2010-08-19T03:29:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=18179"},"modified":"2010-08-18T21:29:01","modified_gmt":"2010-08-19T03:29:01","slug":"the-majestic-plastic-bag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/08\/18\/the-majestic-plastic-bag.html","title":{"rendered":"The Majestic Plastic Bag"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is awesomely brilliant.<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"660\" height=\"405\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/GLgh9h2ePYw?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;color1=0x234900&amp;color2=0x4e9e00&amp;hd=1&amp;border=1\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>First off, I love a fabulous parody. Richard Attenborough and Jacques Cousteau would both be proud, if they weren&#8217;t both dead.<\/p>\n<p>Second, yes &#8212; plastic bags are a problem.\u00a0 It&#8217;s increasingly difficult to get paper bags at the store.\u00a0 At a minimum, try keeping a few cloth bags in your car for doing grocery shopping.\u00a0 If you do end up with plastic bags, most grocery stores have boxes for recycling them when you return.<\/p>\n<p>This is one majestic species that deserves to be endangered.<\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/reader\/view\/user\/07265845059253957572\/state\/com.google\/broadcast\">DOF<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is awesomely brilliant. First off, I love a fabulous parody. Richard Attenborough and Jacques Cousteau would both be proud, if they weren&#8217;t both dead. Second, yes &#8212; plastic bags are a problem.\u00a0 It&#8217;s increasingly difficult to get paper bags at the store.\u00a0 At a minimum, try keeping a few cloth bags in your car &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/08\/18\/the-majestic-plastic-bag.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Majestic Plastic Bag&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":24536,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/12\/14\/in-da-bag-boss.html","url_meta":{"origin":18179,"position":0},"title":"In da bag, Boss","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 14-Dec-11 5:20pm","format":false,"excerpt":"We keep a dozen or so reusable shopping bags in the car, where we promptly remember them as soon as half the groceries have been bagged in plastic. sighThe phenomenon in the cartoon is at least in part because the plastic in plastic bags seems to split apart if you\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":33355,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/04\/26\/credit-cards-and-plastic-bags.html","url_meta":{"origin":18179,"position":1},"title":"Credit cards and plastic bags","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 26-Apr-13 6:50pm","format":false,"excerpt":"I had a very buggy end-of-life credit card what worked on about half the readers out there, but that I didn't want to get replaced because it had just a few months before a new one would get sent (and I was afraid if I complained, they'd change my fricking\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1139,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2001\/10\/13\/with_apologies-3.html","url_meta":{"origin":18179,"position":2},"title":"With apologies to P, P &#038; M, and JD","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 13-Oct-01 3:14am","format":false,"excerpt":"All our bags are packed, We're ready to go, Bellboy at 5:20 Is due at our door, When we wake the baby up, I'm sure she'll cry. 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