Karen and Anthony: The real virtue of Ziplocs — and other plastic items — was aptly identified by that great stand-up philosopher, George Carlin, who suggested that we humans were allowed to evolve on Earth because the planet wanted plastic for itself, and didn’t know how else to produce it other than through us. This, Carlin went on, provided the answer to the centuries-old question: “Why are we here?”: “Plastic!,” he answered.

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