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	<title><![CDATA[Why The Bag Backlash?]]></title>
	<url>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/elizabeth-royte/why-the-bag-backlash_b_46200.html</url>
	<abstract><![CDATA[<p>When I was asked to speak at something called <a href="http://www.iusb.edu/~cpbags/fest.html">BagFest</a> at Indiana University South Bend, last week, I was initially skeptical. Why did we need a festival to collect bags for recycling, and what good did recycling them do, in the larger scheme of troubling environmental problems? But when I walked into the cafeteria and saw the ten-foot - and growing fast - mountain of plastic, I had a change of heart. This was the grassroots in action.</p>

<p>Children happily...</p>]]></abstract>
	<taxonomy><![CDATA[Politics]]></taxonomy>
	<date_published>2008-03-28T02:47:00-04:00</date_published>
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