People like them for their groceries, for their Chinese take-out, wrapped around a brown bag that contains an alcoholic beverage, double-bagged to hold in their six-pack, or as a way to conceal an embarrassing box of tampons. They also like to keep a collection of them inside of a bigger plastic bag underneath the sink in the kitchen in hopes of someday reusing them. When that day does not come, they all get thrown out.
Most white bags (including the ones pictured above) have colored logos on them. I feel that this makes them only mostly white, or even multicolored. I don’t write this blog, and so of course I don’t make the ultimate decision here, but i feel like you should be going through the set of all things 100% white that people like and that exist in the universe, before you get into the subset of mostly white things that people like and exist in the universe.
perhaps you should start a new blog devoted to the mostly white things people like (I would do this, but am much happier piggybacking on other people’s work rather than doing something myself).
Please note, the above comment could be make about the last entry #4 Swan as well. Even in the picture the Swan has orange, brown and black clearly visible, I would have no problem if the entry title were changed to “Swan Bodies” but as it stands a swan cannot truthfully be said to be “white”
-Andrew
Dude, the bag is white.
i use them as trash bags for small trash cans, when i have a lapse of focus and forget to ask for paper at the grocery store. brown paper bags have always been all-around better. but people say: you’re killing trees! sure, but, i’m demanding growth, too.
the world has apparently gone mad, and everyone prefers petrochemical products instead, and they perhaps think they are saving the trees, whilst i am not.
the more paper you buy, the more trees will be grown, to meet the demand (economics is really that simple). neither “old growth” nor “rainforest” have ever been proven necessary to the food chain. they’re just fancy names for particular species.
recall that 99.999% of all species are already extinct, and the biosphere is still doing pretty good, warming notwithstanding. by the way, there’s growing dissent about whether anyone can say conclusively that warming is caused by human activity. and, it peaked almost ten years ago. and, the sun is just getting over a period of unprecedented, intense radiation output.
bet you won’t ever hear that on a major media outlet, though.
when you don’t ask for paper and let them give you plastic, more [unrenewable, polluting] oil has to be bought by your country and then used suboptimally compared to fuel and electricity production.
buy glass; buy paper; don’t buy plastic. defending the UN’s global warming hypothesis while simultaneously purchasing plastic containers is both hypocritical and ignorant.
Better yet, buy canvas and reuse.
See here, there’s even a kickass anthem for just such an idea:
After American Beauty we can also like white plastic bags in a poetic, deeper way.
I don’t like plastic bags. Lots of people don’t, in fact. There’s a whole movement called Plastic Bags are the Devil.
But you know what white things I do like? Marshmallows. Yummy. You should do a post on them.
By the way, I love this blog. Keep it up!
After reading “The World Without Us” and learning about the plastic garbage continents and endless mini-particles floating in the oceans, I became somewhat obsessed about reducing my use of plastic, recycling what my local trash pick-up would accept, and reusing *every* plastic bag that still made it into my home. Having a couple of cats and a litter box to clean, plus a messy toddler still in diapers, gives me several opportunities each day to use the plastic bags as gloves and icky waste receptacles. It was surprising how quickly we used up our stockpile of plastic grocery & other shopping bags once we started taking our canvas bags to stores.
On the list of white foods I like: mashed potatoes and vanilla ice cream. Not together, though. Oh, and piña coladas – hee.
And non-food: pillows and fresh clean sheets.
I kind of want to kick Andrew Connolly.
Please keep posting. This site is very brilliant.
That is NOT true at all.
White people like eco-friendly bags. Plastic bags contribute to landfills. This post is bullshit.
people also enjoy spending time and money purchasing plastic bag-hutches, so as to store their white plastic bags.
I’m not a big fan of plastic bags, but I do like snow under certain circumstances. My votes for white things I like include (somehow these ended up being mostly culinary items
-> the white pulp of the guanabana fruit … VERY tasty! (for details, see my travel blog about Costa Rica at : http://www.flyingcattravel.com/travelgallery.shtml )
-> jicama
-> lychee nuts
-> tapioca (sometimes)
-> cauliflower (yes, I actually like eating it, even uncooked)
-> meringue (on the once-in-a-blue-moon lemon meringue pie)
-> vanillla almond milk
-> lots of white flowers, wild and domestic varieties
-> cumulus clouds (in a deep blue sky)
-> the phone on my desk (I use to call friends)
-> my dry erase board (helps me stay organized
-> teeth (my wife’s addition to the list)
… probably lots of others, but that’s a start …
i like marshmallows too!
Ya, I’m a big fan of plastic bags. They come in handy so much don’t they?