This is a picture taken outside of the Maui dump on the down-wind side. Those beautiful trade winds blow through the island and the dump, blowing all of this around and depositing it in the brush, hanging all over fences and all tangled up in the sugar cane fields. It's been a massive, ugly mess for years!
The good news is that this is all going away, hopefully forever.
On 1/11/2011 the ban on all plastic bags on Maui took effect - it actually hapened! I happened into the Walmart in Kahului a few days after the ban began (I was unaware of this at the time) and noticed the shoppers rolling out with carts full of loose purchases. As I walked in and looked down the row of checkout counters I saw no bags of any kind - not even paper. I thought WOW even Walmart is doing it! They now have inexpensive reusable bags available: 25 cents for the small one and 50 cents for a bigger one and still no sign of any paper bags.
Now on to banning plastic water bottles - whoopie!
