To the Editor:

Since Long Beach Township decided to ban the use of plastic bags, there has been a lot of back and forth as to whether this is a good or bad idea. Since everyone “knows” that plastic bags are bad, it is hard to make a case that their use should be permitted within the readership area of The SandPaper.

Let us all agree that plastic does not disintegrate in an environmentally friendly manner. Let us also agree that the pictures one sees of umpteen square miles of the Pacific Ocean covered by…

January 31, 2018