For the record, WGx does not come to your door step in a plastic bag.

But this weekend, many of the printed newspapers delivered in WG came in bags — even though the Merc itself printed a story about a proposal to ban plastic bags in California:

One of the state’s top environmental officials embraced the idea Tuesday, citing the devastating impact on marine animals, which die after ingesting plastic bags or becoming entangled in them.

Secretary of Resources Mike Chrisman is head of a cabinet-level panel - the California Ocean Protection Council - that is mulling over a list of proposals, including the bag ban, to improve the health of the ocean. While the panel has no power to impose such a prohibition, its recommendation would give the idea a tremendous shot of momentum.

Other ideas under consideration include imposing fees or regulations on producers of plastic food packaging, another big contributor to ocean debris, and cracking down on beach litter such as cigarette butts.

The street-strolling delivery crew from the WG Resident occasionally wraps the weekly periodical into a plastic bag, as they did on many streets this week. Since the Mercury’s weekend edition came packaged in a fancy, multi-colored plastic Ikea advertisement, a bag ban would certainly be another attack on the paper’s revenue stream.

WGx World Headquarters never gets the WG Times delivered anymore, so you’ll have to let us know if it came in a plastic bag. Either way, remember that rubber bands can’t be recycled.

WGx, of course, only comes to your door if you choose to read it — and prefers to spend precious electricity resources instead.