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In the Tuesday episode "The Michael Knowles Show," Knowles explains why plastic bans are inconvenient for people and actually hurt the environment. Video and partial transcription below:
[San Francisco’s] The ban on plastic water bottles is incredibly stupid, and it's not fair because it will not have such an impact. It's stupid because the purpose is not to help the environment. the goal is just to hurt you. Like all other regulations and prohibitions, it is not about the environment, but about bothering you. Here's how you know by the way. At the San Francisco Airport, the ban only applies to water bottles. But you know that you go to the store at the airport or in a grocery store or a convenience store, they do not sell only bottles of water. They sell soda bottles, iced tea bottles, Gatorade juice drinks, all kinds of drinks. All this is fine at the San Francisco Airport. The only one you can not get is a bottle of water.
Why it's because traveling dehydrates you. I learned this the hard way. Once, I went to New York for a bachelor party. So I was already a little dehydrated. I get on the plane, I forgot that traveling dehydrates you. I felt like in the middle of the Sahara desert. Men lose up to half a gallon of water from their bodies during a ten-hour flight. It's a lot of water. And you are also not allowed to bring security to airports. So what are you supposed to do now? You are supposed to suffer. That's all. I guess you could bring – I do not know a bottle of metallic water or a bottle of reusable water empty by security, then go to the only fountain, somewhere in the airport, or you can go into the airport bathroom and fill your water bottle. Does not it seem delicious? Does not it seem really appealing? Or you can suffer. And that's what they want you to do – they want you to suffer. The purpose of this is [for] disadvantage.
You have seen this with the ban on plastic shopping bags. So three years ago in California – other states followed suit – but in 2016 in California, they banned single-use plastic grocery bags. New York followed California last March. And after that, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said the ban would "reduce waste in our communities, protect our water and create a cleaner, greener New York for all." So that's what happened, right? That's obviously what happened. No, in fact, of course not – the pollution by plastics is greatly aggravated.
We have not yet seen the effect in New York because it just happened – but in California, the ban has resulted in an increase in plastic pollution. How did he do that? How do we know that? A study from the University of Sydney has shown that the ban on the single-use, slightly thin plastic grocery bag has led to a massive increase in the sale of thicker plastic garbage bags, which are more damaging to the environment. 'environment. You know, the kind of person with whom you put your garbage at home. How it works? What is the relationship between grocery bags and garbage bags that neither of these economists nor any of these regulators nor any of these environmental activists would have thought? Well, you know of your own use.
In the good old days, when we had plastic grocery bags, you would go [and] do all your shopping, and then you would save your plastic grocery bags, is not it? And if you look like my family, you'll save three cents – you'll never use as much as you actually have. So you just have them in a pantry somewhere, but you would use them. You would use them slowly, and the way you would use them would be to line up your little bins. And it was very easy, it was actually an organic way to recycle. Because you have these bags, you do not want to go out and buy new garbage bags, there is no reason to do it. So you're doing well, use it, throw away your garbage, throw it in the trash, throw it away. You are ready to leave. Now that you can not do that – now that these bags do not exist anymore – people have to line up one way or another on their garbage cans. They buy bags that are much more damaging to the environment.
Ok, at least that's better when it comes to the grocery bags themselves. Right? False. Another study showed that paper bags, which replaced single-use plastic bags, are actually worse for the environment than single-use plastic bags. How do we know that? British environmental agencies proved in 2011, eight years ago, that we had to reuse a paper bag three times if we wanted to reduce the environmental impact of a plastic bag. for single use. Now, have you ever reused paper bags? No, nobody does it. You just throw them away. Paradoxically, you reuse very environmentally friendly plastic bags, but you do not reuse the paperback, so they are much worse for the environment. Why is that? It takes a lot more energy to make paper bags. You have to create the paper pulp, the paper bag, all that energy and all the time you could have made from this very thin plastic bag for single use.
Ok, so, Michael, conservative, anti-environmentalist. Then forget the plastic bags. Forget the paper bags. I know! I know how we can save the environment, right? That's what all the activists are telling you. At the grocery store, you can buy one of these reusable cotton bags. You've seen that before, all these bags are great, right? It's the best. It is at this time that you really want to protect the planet from global warming, you buy these bags. All the most liberal people you know have these bags. They bring them back. It's better for the environment, right? No, it is the worst for the environment.
Last April, a newspaper article was published in the courts: "Your cotton bag is just about the worst substitute for a plastic bag." Do not take my word for it. Listen to the 2013 Scientists Study from the Ministry of the Environment and Food of Denmark, [which] you have found that cotton bags need to be reused – how often do you have to guess? So, if you want, if you want to bring the paper bag to the level of the environmental impact of a plastic bag, you have to reuse it three times. Yeah, [how] How many times have you had to reuse a cotton bag? Twenty thousand times. I will not go to the grocery store twenty thousand times in my life.
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