Pi-Consulting

Announcing a move to “Make our economy a little more soulful”, San Francisco’s City Hall has announced a move to outlaw plastic shopping bags. Less than 5% of the 100 billion (big number, isn’t it?) plastic bags that Americans discard each year end up in re-cycling. San Francisco is not only concerned about pollution of the environment – it costs150 bucks a time to send municipal workers to go pull the pesky flapping things out of trees – but also wasted resources. Eliminating plastic bags would save them 800,000 gallons of oil annually, they reckon, since the plastic material is petrochemical-derived. Get ready to carry your groceries home in receptacles made from biodegradable corn- or potato-starch. You may not know the difference, but future generations will. And rejoice with San Francisco’s City Hall that “Karma is with us”. Source: The Economist.