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Friday, February 1st, 2013 08:17 pm
Cities banned plastic bags in response to claims that the bags increase the costs of waste disposal and harm marine animals. But according to the article, the bag bans have exacted a serious human toll; after San Francisco's enactment of the first major plastic bag ban in 2007 the number of emergency room visits and deaths related to foodborne illness increased sharply.

The authors estimate that the additional deaths from the plastic bag ban value each saved animal at $87,500. Perhaps more significantly, this figure only takes into account the costs of those people killed by foodborne illness, not the legions hospitalized, sickened, absent from place of employment, or otherwise incapacitated because of eating food out of filthy cloth bags.
Saturday, February 2nd, 2013 07:32 pm (UTC)
во1х, грамматически бессмысленная фраза: deaths(подлежащее) value(сказуемое) animal (дополнение)
во2х, логически бессмысленная: если возникли "дополнительные(?) смерти" ПОСЛЕ запрета на пакеты, откуда взялись спасённые животные, тем более какие-то тёмные расчёты цены их жизни в долларах?

Saturday, February 2nd, 2013 08:18 pm (UTC)
теперь понятно, спасибо