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Recent Comments! BRC : I do think the City Council, paid for full time work, each, I think, with a research intern, can do both, work on the gang issues as well as discuss, research, decide on environmental issues, such as the use of plastic in the city, that is, and specifically, plastic bags. Andrevas : hi, if you have a problem with what I’ve said, please address me with more than telling me to go hang out at the landfill. what problem do you have with me not supporting a bag ban that illogically encompasses paper bags along with plastic, which last I checked were made from renewable sources and can be further recycled to make new bags? what problem do you have with me not wanting a government body telling me that I have to buy something just to be able to go about shopping for regular everyday things? you, sir, are a prime example of the failure of the populace-at-large if all you can say to me is “please take yourself down to the landfill.” if you can’t disagree with me with some civility maybe you’re the one who needs a better attitude. el_smurfo : There are few people on the earth more generally angry than peace loving environmentalists. Jihad for Gaia really seems to get their blood riled up. From the diction and abbreviation, you can tell that poster is just a funloving straight brimmed hat Bro who has never paid a tax bill in their life anyways, so it’s hard to take them too seriously. el_smurfo : That trash is going to the landfill in some sort of bag. Either I’m going to use a thin, cheap single use bag from the store or I’m going to use a super think and durable bag I buy…wonder which one is better for the environment? Duncan : Andrevas, please take yourself down to the landfill and stay there until you get a better attitude. Thank you.. Andrevas : angry much? what does not supporting a ban on bags have to do with littering? every time I get plastic, they go in one big trashbag that’s tied shut heading to a landfill, or I take them to a store that recycles them, since you know littering all over the place is sooo cool. what’s next, you going to ask the government to ban my ziplock sandwich bags, too? please don’t assume things about people just because they don’t want another government mandated intrusion into their lives, or if you’re going to insist on doing it, you could at least not sound like a fool by being insulting.

The paper grocery bag: endangered! | Davis Enterprise

The paper grocery bag: endangered!

Earth Day developed as a temporal marker for taking stock of the condition of our natural resources and the impacts of our personal and collective behavior on the sustainability of our life support systems.

Recently, there has been a sharp increase in concern about our use of plastic and paper bags used to transport our groceries and other purchases. Typically, we do not give a second thought as to how these conveniences affect our resources and the health of our society.

Each American uses 749 pounds of paper per year — 187 billion pounds for the whole society. With 5 percent of global population, we account for 30 percent of global paper consumption. As for paper bags, we use 40 million of these, up from 10 billion in 1999.

Paper was invented by Africans in the Nile Valley 6000 years ago from reeds that were pounded into flat sheets — papyrus. In 105 AD, Ts’ai Lun, a Chinese courtier, mixed mulberry bark and hemp with water, mixed in scraps of cotton and linen, mashed the mixture into a pulp, pressed the mixture into mats and then dried them in the sun. Voilá! Paper!

Francis Wolle, a clergyman in a Moravian seminary for young women, patented a paper bag machine in 1852, and in 1869 he and his brother founded the Union Paper Bag Machine Co. Margaret Knight, a prolific inventor, invented a device for cutting, folding and pasting paper bag bottoms in 1870.

In 1883, Charles Stilwell, a former Union soldier in the Civil War, was awarded a patent for making a square-bottom paper bag with pleated sides, and in 1890, William Purvis, an African-American inventor, patented an improved paper bag machine, which he sold to the Union Paper Bag Machine Co.

Located near Savannah, Ga., the Union Bag and Paper Corp. operates the largest mill of its kind in the world, producing 35 million paper bags per day — 9 billion per year — enough for 250 bags for each American family.

It comes with costs

Tracing the life cycle of the paper bag gives some idea of its costs to society. That life cycle includes essentially eight stages — the growing of trees; their harvesting and transportation; extraction and processing of wood; manufacturing the bags; packaging; transporting and distributing; use and reuse; and disposal or recycling.

Trees are grown on tree plantations for 20 to 35 years, depending on the species. These tree plantations do not exhibit the biological diversity found in natural forests, thus they require more treatments to maintain yields.

Reports of patent cases, decided in the Circuit courts of the United States since January 1, 1874 ...

Union Paper-Bag Machine Co. v. Crane. The Union Paper-Bag Machine Company vs. Luther Crane et al. In Equity. The determination, by the Patent ...

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Standard Paper-Bag Co., 30 Fed. 63; Machine Co. v. Waterbury, 39 Fed. 389; Travers v. Cordage Co., 64 Fed. 771. This case, however, does not call for an ...

Reports of cases argued and determined in the Circuit Court of the United States for the First Circuit, (1812-1875).

Union Paper-Bag Machine Company v. Luther Crane et al. After decision by the Patent Office of an interference between an applicant for a patent and the ...