I watched the Today Show for the first time in a long time the other day. There was a story about the new Sun Chips bags, which are completely biodegradable. However, these new bags are loud and some people find them annoying, despite their positive outcome. 3 1/2 mins were spent talking about how enough people are complaining that it is causing Sun Chips to change their bags to a more "user-friendly" one while still trying to keep the bags biodegradable.
For some reason, this really got under my skin. Maybe its from working camp all summer and having campers come up with ideas about ways to start changing the world, or seeing a campus in Massachusetts that provides recycling in each room for students, or just being a part of an organization that tries to do as much as it can to lower its carbon footprint. I don't see how some people can be as shallow as wanting their bags to not make a little extra noise, even at the expense of increasing pollution. Although this is just the first attempt at Sun Chips to help clean up the earth a little more, I for one think that it is a great one. I would rather listen to the rattle of a potato chip bag, then have to swim around in environmentally unfriendly potato chip bags in 20 years.
Sorry if I have offended anyone, but I needed to blow off some steam about these people who have taken the time to make YouTube videos of their complaints. I hope that eventually everyone can be happy and there will be silent, biodegradable chip bags at some point in the future. Enjoy your evening.
