That doesn't seem like a good response to me. I recycle everything that's worth recycyling; I don't do it because the government wants me to, I do it because I grew up piss poor, raised by people who grew up even piss-poorer, and I can appreciate what scarcity of resources really means. It has nothing to do with being green, I just understand how much energy and human ingenuity and effort went into making the stuff that I use every day, and I think it would be terrible to waste all that.
It's not about want, it's about force. They've forced a choice on me that I'll either use reusable bags, which are actually quite annoying, or fund the very blue-haired fairies responsible for this (and money is time).
I notice you didn't say what you feel a good response is to being forced like this to waste your own time/money. Just go along with it like a good little German Canadian?
My county just added a 5c/bag tax so in response I stopped recycling entirely.
Because fuck them.
That doesn't seem like a good response to me. I recycle everything that's worth recycyling; I don't do it because the government wants me to, I do it because I grew up piss poor, raised by people who grew up even piss-poorer, and I can appreciate what scarcity of resources really means. It has nothing to do with being green, I just understand how much energy and human ingenuity and effort went into making the stuff that I use every day, and I think it would be terrible to waste all that.
It's not about want, it's about force. They've forced a choice on me that I'll either use reusable bags, which are actually quite annoying, or fund the very blue-haired fairies responsible for this (and money is time).
I notice you didn't say what you feel a good response is to being forced like this to waste your own time/money. Just go along with it like a good little
GermanCanadian?