Oh Those Plastic Shopping Bags
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In the eighties, in Communist Poland, we carried our groceries in shopping bags and plastic bags. Sometimes over long distances.
V osemdesetih, v komunistični Poljski, smo nosili živila v nakupovalnih in plastičnih vrečkah. Včasih tudi na dolge razdalje.
Nobody complained. You were just glad you'd managed to buy something.
Nikjer ni bilo pritožb. Preprosto si bil vesel, da si nekaj uspel kupiti.
My, how everything changed when we moved to Canada in the early nineties.
Oj, kako se je vse spremenilo, ko smo se v zgodnjih devetdesetih preselili v Kanado.
Suddenly plastic bags were like water, free and unlimited.
Nenadoma so bile plastične vrečke kot voda, brezplačne in neomejene.
Sometimes you'd put a single item in its own little plastic bag.
Včasih si vsako stvar posebej dal v svojo majhno plastično vrečko.
To make it even funnier, all the groceries went into the cart, and from the cart into the car.
Da je bilo še bolj zabavno, so vsa živila šla v voziček, iz vozička pa v avto.
So you only carried them a few steps.
Torej si jih nosil le nekaj korakov.
In December of twenty twenty-three, a ban on handing out plastic bags in stores came into effect across Canada.
Decembra leta dve tisoč triindvajset je po vsej Kanadi začela veljati prepoved deljenja plastičnih vrečk v trgovinah.
Oh, there was a lot of complaining about that.
Ah, bilo je veliko pritožb zaradi tega.
I'll admit, I had a hard time getting used to it too.
Priznam, tudi sam se nisem lahko navadil.
I kept forgetting to bring my bags.
Nenehno sem pozabljal prinesti svoje vrečke.
I often carried everything in my arms or bought yet more reusable bags, so I ended up with quite a collection.
Pogosto sem vse nosil v rokah ali pa kupoval še več vrečk za večkratno uporabo, tako da sem imel na koncu kar lepo zbirko.
Still, two years later, I've finally gotten used to it.
Kljub temu sem se po dveh letih končno navadil.
Now, when I'm in the States, I'm surprised they still hand out plastic bags without a second thought.
Zdaj, ko sem v ZDA, me preseneča, da še vedno brez pomisleka delijo plastične vrečke.
It took forty years, but history has come full circle.
Trajalo je štirideset let, a zgodovina je sklenila krog.
Once again, we pack our groceries in a sensible way.
Še enkrat pakiramo živila na razumen način.
It's just a shame we needed all of forty years to wise up.
Samo škoda je, da smo potrebovali vseh štirideset let, da smo se spametovali.