What We Do With, And The Future Of, Plastic Bags

I came home from the grocery store and put my groceries away. I collected all the poly bags that I had brought home, and they made that sound that crinkling plastic bags make. I put them in another bag. I save my poly bags because I use them as trash bags. I heard that all the trash from our city floats on a barge (which drifts far enough away from the coast since so that no one can smell it all) down to Virginia, to swampy, rocky land that no one can use. All of the trash in the Northeast part of the country is dozens of square miles wide. Can you imagine a field trip to such a place? Is the grandeur different from the Statue of Liberty? Symbolically, they both represent American freedom, except one looks forward to the future and the other is a remnant of the past. And I'm sure the former smells pretty bad.

All those plastic bags sitting in the middle of that field. I'm sure they'd rather float in the ocean, with the rest of their friends in the great Pacific custom bag field. That field is supposed to weigh tons, but it doesn't weight as much as the garbage field in Virginia or Pennsylvania. My friend told me about it, and then he said that eventually after the trash decomposes into the earth, the land will become fertile. We will move our trash elsewhere, to another barren rocky field or swampy stinky marsh, where over the course of the next hundred years the same thing will happen, and we Americans, becoming further engrained in our habits of meat-eating, or perhaps changing those habits and becoming organic food-reliant health nuts, will continue on, celebrating our culture, living for freedom, for the ability to choose whatever we want to eat for dinner, as long as we can afford it.

I've also heard that in the future, you'll be able to order food from your refrigerator and it will come to you through tubes, like those old mail tubes in hotels. Because we'll live in large apartment style communities or in suburban neighborhoods with a central supermarket with underground tubes affixed to our floors through which our groceries will come from a vacuum. The pleasures of shopping in the supermarket will be a relic, something the children learn about in their textbooks or in their collected poetry by Allen Ginsberg. We won't use plastic bags any longer to carry groceries either. But then what will we use for garbage bags?

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