Where do all the plastic bags go?

MThe Daily News article on the thin-film plastic-bag ban (“New York to finally enforce plastic bag ban starting Oct. 19,” Sept. 18) is welcome news. This new law will greatly reduce the amount of plastic that ends up in our waterways and landfills. However, this law is limited to plastic shopping bags. It does not address all plastic bags and film, such as plastic bags for takeout food, produce bags or dry cleaning film. As environmentally concerned New Yorkers, we feel satisfied that we can deposit these items in recycling bins provided by some supermarkets and pharmacies, but that is where our knowledge ends.

Where do these items go after they are out of our hands? Are they really recycled? The answers are vague and confusing. We know that some are used to make composite lumber for decks and playground equipment and some becomes carpet. Unlike when glass is recycled to become new glass bottles, plastic bags are never recycled to be new plastic bags. But how much plastic ends up in landfills?

Until the ban on plastic bags includes all types of plastic bags and film, we will continue contributing to the plastic pollution problem.

Give me a break! Agent Orange no more tested positive than the man in the moon! This is a last-ditch attempt to sabotage the legitimate democratic election process. This creature and his sheeple will stop at nothing! They are determined to install him as dictator for life! How long will the American people pretend that what is going on is not an attempted coup? Perhaps his Proud Boys will bring him some Clorox and/or Lysol to drink for an instant cure! We as a people should be deeply ashamed of what this country has become. Mild symptoms indeed. America, I’ve got a swamp I’d like to sell you. Oh yeah, you’ve already bought it! What a worldwide disgrace.

As I recall, candidate Trump and his media allies made a big deal about Hillary Clinton’s collapsing from pneumonia in the 2016 election. They gloated over her possible health issues and inability to be president in the most despicable of ways. As shocking as that was, that was par for the course for Trump. Don’t think for a minute that the same behavior might emanate from the Biden campaign about Trump’s COVID-19 infection. This election is about a return to common decency vs. continued depravity.

Free radicals

Terri Gilbert

Pearl Cantos

Hubris was the ancient Greek word for the extreme arrogance of their superheroes, who when tested by the gods with a real reality check, failed it miserably. The gods roared in laughter at the demise of the arrogant fools. Trump and his maskless family just met Mr. COVID-19. This is not funny to us, though, as Trump’s incompetence has led to thousands of needless deaths and a devastated economy. Bramhall’s Trump monkey cartoon was right on target. We should be worried that Trump hurled COVID-19 droplets at Joe Biden in the debate rather than poop. Despite being warned by a Cleveland Clinic doctor to wear masks, Trump’s clueless clan sat arrogantly maskless in the first row infecting how many others? Enough of them already! Enough!

Gerald Browne

The president has gone from the commander-in-chief to the denier-in-chief to moron-inchief and now spreader-in-chief. That should be the new number one reason to dump Trump.

Greg Ahl

Pat Foster

Presidential debates are supposed to give voters a glimpse of who and what we can expect for the next four years. Tuesday night’s bizarre, freewheeling slugfest was a disaster. I am more worried about my kids’ futures now than I was before watching the debate (or what one nationally respected reporter called on live TV a “s-tshow”). This is not the way it’s supposed to work.

How about a penalty box? A real, live cell. Like the kind used on disenfranchised immigrants. Give Bully Boy a taste of his own medicine and things to come. Chris Job years old. Beatle John was one of the greatest songwriters and artistic geniuses in modern times. Lennon’s unique musical style, his haunting, thought-provoking lyrics and his melodious sonnets touched all of us in some special, personal way. John Lennon was the voice of global peace and brotherly love during a time of intense turmoil, racial tensions, paranoia, injustice, and hysteria — pretty much what we are experiencing today. Lennon wanted us to strive for peace, unity and equality among all people and nations. Hopefully, his beautiful dreams of tranquility, harmony, love and understanding will become our realities. In John Lennon’s own immortal, poetical words from “Imagine”: “You may say that I’m a dreamer/but I’m not the only one/I hope someday you’ll join us/and the world will be as one.”

John Di Genio