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Stuffing our environment
g'day george,
on the plastic bag issue i have a different outlook, i tend to think laterally and outside the square and comfort zone, those attributes make it easdy to adopt change needed for earth friendlier living. for 1.. where did the push come from for consumers to adopt change? from the governements of our countries is where, and they where preasured by vested interests namely the retailers of groceries. the price of those "free" plastic bags has been factored into every item you buy. s for me i would waqnt to see the retailers drop the prices of all their range before i would consider change, or it just simply becomes more profit for shareholder. 2.. those so called dreaded plastic bags break down very quickly in direct sunshine, you could put them in a wire container and in a month they will be nothing but dust. 3 the so called enviro' friendly bags are made of polymers (alomost impossible to break down), and when they are in total use paid for by the consumer they too will end up as litter but they will last longer, plus those green/blue/red whatever coloured bags are made in china. just for me i think we need to tread carefully when something is thrust upon us by the very people who are crueling our environment with their excesses. there are plenty of other real issues to get the public behind, i feel anyhow just how i see it. we use those bags to collect household (non-reusable/recycle) waste into saves buying just as equaly bad bin bags, which don't break down as quickly as do those recycled plastic grocery bags. in permaculture anything that we create that will rot or break down stays on site, and plastic shopping bags are low on the priority of waste off site product there are lots of wrapping from grocery stores that have to be dumped so we also need to be aware of "if you can't recycle it on sight in your garden then don't bring it home", would rather see more paper wrapping used. the hidden problems film wraps. polystyrene, plastic food containers. we need to return to grease-proof paper, glass containers, tin containers. but food processors are pushing more and more porduct into plastic containers agin they don't break down, and recycling plastics is itself an unfriendly process. take care my friend len http://www.users.bigpond.com/gardenlen1/ snipped |
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