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The plastic bag free town
"Bob Hobden" wrote in message ... "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. In some ways it's the way Ireland went a few years back, they put a tax on disposable carrier bags, the shops handed out "lifetime" bags and it works extremely well, bag usage down by 95% or so. Here in Barbados all the carrier bags I have seen have been stamped biodegradeable with a web site which I see is a UK based company marked on them. www.degradable.net Why is UK government so far behind? -- Chris, Sugar Hill, Barbados A little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance. |
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