On Nov 12, 8:14 pm, Des Higgins wrote:
On Nov 12, 5:30 pm, "Bob Hobden" wrote:





"Martin" wrote after
"Bob Hobden" wrote:

Interesting site about Modbury, the town that has banned plastic bags.
The video of a speech by Ray Anderson on the "Why and How to" page is
excellent.
http://www.plasticbagfree.com/index.php

and if anyone thinks this is OT for this ng check out the site.

I'd be more impressed if they were giving away reuseable bags.

The site says that the local Co-op gave every household in the town a
re-usable cotton bag, further re-usable bags are available at a small
charge, even the take-always use biodegradable containers made of corn
starch .....this must be the way to go.

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Regards
Bob Hobden
17mls W. of London.UK

It has been illegal to give free plastic bags in Irish shops for a few
years now. You can get them but have to ask and have to pay. Ireland
used to have an appalling litter problem; overnight we went from that
to merely having a bad litter problem. It needed a simple act of
government. Since then, people have gotten used to bringing their own
bags when going shopping. One barrier at the time was the amount of
economic activity that went onto making and distributing the
disposable bags; it is a big business. It worked almost immediately
and the supermarkets surived quite happily despite all the bleating
they did before hand, moaning about how civilisation would end etc.

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What's really funny now is travelling to other countries, and feeling
majorly imposed upon at being handed a plastic bag for the purchase of
1 small very portable item.

Cat(h)