Tacoma: Couldn't plastic bags be more biodegradable?

Re: “Tacoma might restrict plastic shopping bags” (TNT, 12-15).

I would like to paraphrase that trite NRA statement: “Bags don’t litter, people litter.”

It should be painfully obvious by now that it is virtually impossible to legislate morality or personal responsibility in our self-centered, irresponsible society.

Eliminating plastic bags might eventually reduce one source of trash for people to throw on others’ property. Or, perhaps with a little incentive, might not some industrial engineers reformulate the plastic in those bags to be more biodegradable in substantially less time than thousands of years?

This story was originally published December 15, 2015 at 3:55 PM with the headline "Tacoma: Couldn't plastic bags be more biodegradable?."