The Store-Provided Plastic Bag

The time has come to discard the hoard kept-under-the-counter-in-the-kitchen of plastic bags.  Having them offered some sense of comfort.  Always a place to put something.  Once with so many uses now whittled away to none, they can no longer be used for garbage. A pariah. An outcast; unacceptable; an environmental hazard; save the whales.   Who cares they go to Michigan.  

Replaced with biodegradable plastic bags for food waste and clear plastic bags for other refuse.  I suppose the former offers some environmental value (aside from whatever toxins are residual of the manufacturing and degradation process); the latter offers little other than to the manufacture who now has a bigger-government-created-market to sell into.  Oh sure clear-plastic bags can be inspected to ensure the contents is acceptable; a job creation scheme; a career path that can’t be outsourced to some foreign country.  But I have not seen it. 

The space freed up can now be consumed by other stuff; no vacuum is ever left empty in a kitchen.