Business and Environmental Issues Term Paper

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President of Big Bags, I would make a couple of points with respect to our product. While plastic bags have been cast as villains, articles such as those by Bruce Smith of Green Earth paint only one side of the story. I am writing this op-ed in order to tell our side of the story.

The first thing that I would like the audience to know is that Big Bags, Inc. is not just a supplier of plastic bags. We supply a wide range of plastic products. Shopping bags are among those product, but so too are sandwich bags, garbage bags, and the little bags they have out at the dog park for picking up dog…stuff. Arguably, there has to be a certain amount of cognitive dissonance to take issue with plastic shopping bags, when there are clearly many other products made from plastic that nobody is concerned about.

Further to this point, many other plastic products also, like plastic shopping bags, have non-plastic alternatives. Many destructive products in general have substitutes. While it is true that consumers can use canvas bags, should they so desire, they may also opt for bicycles over cars, vegetarian diets over omnivore diets, and other similar substitutions.

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I would point out that even if one accepts Smith's points about plastic bags as gospel -- more on that in a minute -- that they still must recognize there is a tremendous amount of hypocrisy in singling out one aspect of our consumer culture.

Which brings up another point. Plastic bags are in common used because that is what consumers want. In America, we strive to have markets that are as free as possible for regulation. We as a society believe that consumers can make their own choices, and should have the ability to do so. As a corporation, Big Bag, Inc. has never lied to consumers about what our product is, how it is made, or what happens when the product's life cycle is complete. Consumers have access to information on the Internet -- they should be free to make their own informed decisions about the trade-offs that they wish to make, rather than have government make the choice for them. If people wish to be selfish and sacrifice their grandchildren so that they don't have to carry a cloth bag to the store, that should be their right.

Smith is also misinformed….....

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