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.
在八十年代的共產主義波蘭，我們用購物袋和塑膠袋攜帶我們的雜貨。有時是長距離攜帶。
Nobody complained. You were just glad you'd managed to buy something.
沒人抱怨。你只是很高興自己買到了東西。
My, how everything changed when we moved to Canada in the early nineties.
哎呀，九十年代初我們搬到加拿大時一切都變了。
Suddenly plastic bags were like water, free and unlimited.
塑膠袋突然變得像水一樣，免費且無限供應。
Sometimes you'd put a single item in its own little plastic bag.
有時你會把一件商品單獨放進一個小塑膠袋裡。
To make it even funnier, all the groceries went into the cart, and from the cart into the car.
更有趣的是，所有雜貨都放進購物車，然後從購物車搬到汽車裡。
So you only carried them a few steps.
因此，你只需搬運幾步路。
In December of twenty twenty-three, a ban on handing out plastic bags in stores came into effect across Canada.
2023年12月，加拿大全國範圍內開始實施禁止商店免費發放塑膠袋的規定。
Oh, there was a lot of complaining about that.
哦，關於這點抱怨很多。
I'll admit, I had a hard time getting used to it too.
我得承認，我也很難適應這點。
I kept forgetting to bring my bags.
我總是忘記帶購物袋。
I often carried everything in my arms or bought yet more reusable bags, so I ended up with quite a collection.
我經常用雙臂抱著所有東西，或者買更多可重複使用的袋子，最後收集了一大堆。
Still, two years later, I've finally gotten used to it.
不過，兩年後，我終於習慣了。
Now, when I'm in the States, I'm surprised they still hand out plastic bags without a second thought.
現在，當我在美國時，我驚訝地發現他們仍然毫不猶豫地免費發放塑膠袋。
It took forty years, but history has come full circle.
這花了四十年，但歷史已經回到了原點。
Once again, we pack our groceries in a sensible way.
我們再次以合理的方式打包雜貨。
It's just a shame we needed all of forty years to wise up.
只是可惜我們竟然用了整整四十年才變得明智起來。