In reply to Cat(h) ) who wrote this in
, I, Marvo, say :

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)

I found that in Spain recently. They like their bags. On the other hand, the
streets are paved with recycling bins, which is great. And they have bins on
railway stations. In bars, you just lob everything on the floor and it
magically disappears every night.