CUPP: As we try to reduce our use of single use plastics, summer going to strange lengths to make us more environmentally mindful. In Italy, the town of Capri is back banning visitors from bringing non-recyclable plastic items onto the island. No bags, plastic cutlery, plates, et cetera, even your plastic water bottle will be prohibited soon with the island handing out free water flasks this summer. Cities like San Francisco have imposed a ban on plastic bags including those bags you use for your produce in grocery stores because putting your fruits and vegetables directly onto bacteria-covered shopping carts and dirty check out conveyor belts, well that's a much better idea. But in Canada, one supermarket is really turning the screws on plastic-using consumers. If you don't come into East West Market in Vancouver with your own reusable bag, you may leave with one of these. These bags like Into The Weird Adult Video emporium, the Colon Care Co-Op and Dr. Toes Wart Ointment wholesale are meant to shame its own customers away from using plastic bags by giving them plastic bags, all while creating a PR blitz that will almost certainly incentivize teenagers and adult mischief makers alike to rush out and get their own wart ointment and sex store bags from the supermarket. In fact, East West Market owner David Lee Quinn told The Guardian newspaper, quote, some of the customers want to collect them because they love the idea of it. I'm not sure this one's all that well thought out. OK. Before I go, a programming quick note, tomorrow night at 9:00, see what happens when victims and offenders of violent crimes meet face-to-face on the new CNN Original Series, "The Redemption Project" with Van Jones. That's followed by "United Shades Of America" with W. Kamau Bell Sunday at 10:00 pm. "VAN JONES SHOW" is next. Stick around.
East West Market Slogan: "Avoid The Shame. Bring A Reusable Bag".