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Stuffing our environment
Sue wrote: "George.com" wrote snip I use large supermarket plastic bags for bin liners (I need about 1 a week) snip I do that too. Over here the major supermarkets provide a bin for recycling their old used plastic bags. Perhaps you could get them to do the same where you shop. If enough people demanded it they should listen. The bigger places also do large boxes made of recycled plastic that you buy and then use each time you shop. I recall my local Sainsbury's providing paper sacks at one time but that didn't seem to last long. I think people probably didn't find them durable enough, e.g if it was raining, and handle-less bags are not much good for anyone without a car needing to carry shopping home. I've also read that paper sacks use more resources to make and transport than plastic ones. over here in Ireland plastic shopping bags used to be everywhere; we have bad litter problems and the plastic bags were a very visible sign of that; you got them all over roadsides and in hedges and fences etc. We spent years trying to ask people to use re-usable bags or boxes etc. That had almost no effect but it did allow me to feel very superior everytime I asked for no bag and used my backsack for small purchases. Eventually, the solution was very direct and simple. It became illegal to give plastic bags away for shopping. You could still get them but you had to ask for them and pay a tiny fee (15cents a bag or so). It worked overnight. They have disappeared from the countryside (at least the fresh ones have). Now, whenever you go to the supermarked, you have to remember to bring 4 or 5 reusable ones (made of cloth/canvas of some kind and that last about a year) or get boxes or buy your bags. At first you can never remember to bring teh bags; now it is second nature. It really worked. Des in Dublin -- Sue |
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