• http://vwbusnut.wordpress.com/ Sally Fulton

    Ya know it’s funny, here in SW Florida, the old timers tie plastic bags in their fruit trees to keep the birds away, they hate the noise.

  • Jenn Ferris

    I remember the old brown paper bags we got at the grocery store as a kid. We even recycled then…we used them to cover all of our school books. And my Dad would but the brown bags or newspapers over his grass seed to help germination. Can’t do that with a plastic bag!

  • http://wittandwisdom.com cw

    Sometimes there’s so much beauty in the world I feel like I can’t take it, like my heart’s going to cave in.

    Oh come on, you know SOMEONE had to say it.

  • Sarah Romeo

    Very “American Beauty.”

    Jon, I met you and Heather at the book signing—I was the one who in the blinding light of your celebrity compared you guys to The Beatles. Anyway, just wanted to say I hope you had an awesome time in NYC! You guys deserve it!

  • http://danajoywyzard.blogspot.com dana wyzard

    Or maybe, just maybe, there’s an itty bitty little bush spider sniper that is using that bag as his camouflage.

    let’s face it. Humans are filth mongers and the world would be a better place if we weren’t here to ruin it for the rest of creation.

  • Christopher Sean

    I disagree, dana wyzard. As we all know, God created earth for humans to live on and rule over all of animal kind. So, if we were not here, nothing would be here.

  • Elizabeth

    I have thought about this issue as I drive through UT canyons and see the plastic hanging from branches, too high to be retreived. So the latest solution is to return to the use of paper bags? The reason “we” started using the plastic bags was because we needed to save the trees that were being cut down to make the paper bags.….and so it goes. How about re-usable cloth bags? Just a thought.

  • RzDrms

    one site for reusable shopping bags: http://​tinyurl​.com/​4okmp9

  • Rebecca

    It’s funny because last winter my boyfriend saw a plastic bag in one of the trees outside his apartment. He was really pissed off because he thought he would have to look at that depressing sight all winter. Then it moved. Turns out it was a great blue heron nestled up in the shape of a plastic bag. I guess sometimes nature surprises even us cynics.

  • http://www.myspace.com/siddaleeseven siddalee

    Plastic bags in trees make me CRAZY! There are a bunch of stores near my house including a Wal-Mart, Albertsons and K-Mart and on windy days there are plastic bags hanging, blowing, and drifting around our entire neighborhood and it makes me want to scream — “Humans, you should learn to use garbage cans AND fill them only to where THE LIDS CAN CLOSE!!! DON’T OVER STUFF YOUR RECYLE BINS WITH GARBAGE!!!” I could go on and on, but I will restrain myself for now.

  • Christy

    I was thinking as I was reading this post that I was amazed while I was shopping this past weekend over how many major department stores are selling cloth shopping bags now. It was pretty impressive. My sister even bought one to hide all her purchases from her husband! See — saving the earth AND stimulating the economy. YAY cloth bags!!!!

  • Lynn

    I wish I had the pic to back this up (don’t have a zoom) but one day while walking along a river near where I live… hanging in a tree…like some kind of tree ornament… uh, how do i say this??? a feminine product… yeah, I know… ewww… LOL

  • Amy

    Hi Jon,

    Re. your caption that “nothing says we gave up more than plastic bags in trees,” you may be interested in this mind-blowing article from Best Life Magazine. In it, Casey describes an area in the Pacific Ocean that is essentially a plastics dump, known as the Eastern Garbage Patch. Astoundingly, the Patch is twice the size of Texas — and growing.

    Our oceans are turning into plastic…are we?
    By Susan Casey, Photographs by Gregg Segal
    Oct 25, 2007 — 11:45:03 PM

    http://​www​.bestlifeonline​.com/​c​m​s​/​p​u​b​l​i​s​h​/​h​e​a​l​t​h​-​f​i​t​n​e​s​s​/​O​u​r​_​o​c​e​a​n​s​_​a​r​e​_​t​u​r​n​i​n​g​_​i​n​t​o​_​p​l​a​s​t​i​c​_​a​r​e​_​w​e​_​2​_​p​r​i​n​t​e​r​.shtml