Anti-Plastic Bag Lobby

[flea1607]

I Remember when we had Brown Paper bags from the grocers. Then the shops brought in the plastic bags (which you have to use more of because they are smaller than the Brown paper), and now they want US to stop using plastic and want US to pay for there surposed "Green Bags". Isn't up the the shops to stop using the plastic, they started it.

[Iain]

And the joys of paper bags, we still buy potatoes in heavy paper bags, and they keep for weeks without going to seed.

[Gingermick]

Want some well used band-saw blades?.

Do they come attached to a bandsaw?

[Landseka]

I can remember as a young'un and one of a familly of seven, we never had a weekly rubbish pick-up at all, that was an optional extra on the rates at the time - one that we never needed.
This was at a time that plastic & styrene foam had probably not been invented yet so all wrappers were minimal and usually paper based.
Our rubbish only consisted of either this paper product which was burnt in our incinerator ( at a time when smoke wasn't a pollutant, so this action was legal) vegetable waste was either fed into our worm farm which gave us a never ending supply of fish bait or just dug into the garden and the maybe a dozen or so cans a year were crushed and tossed around behind the garage where I think they just rusted away. Remember this was at a time when if you wanted stewed apricots you picked them & stewed them.....no canned stuff for us!
I can't see us ever getting back to living like this so we are stuck with ever increasing piles of rubbish.

Regards

Neil

[Sir Stinkalot]

Remember this was at a time when if you wanted stewed apricots you picked them & stewed them.....no canned stuff for us! Neil

Neil .... how can you manage to look so good for your age?

[Harry72]

I think the anwser has been mentioned before on this thread... and has been ignored by the government and a lot of people, its called hemp.
Before Du-pont got it banned back in the old days because it was the competion to nylon it was the worlds biggest trade crop, it is totaly enviromently friendly and can be grown just about anywhere with no chemicals and little water... the europeans are a lot smarter than the americans think.
If you want to see the truth about the whole dupont thing there is a good doco called "the billion dollar crop"
The hemp plant has more uses than any other crop or material known to man!

[goat]

i saw a doco on hemp they made a car body out of it and these blokes where belting the poo out of it with sledge hammers and never left a mark very strong stuff (the wife needs a car made out of it )

[Bob Willson]

On the subject of excess wrapping ... BI-LO often do offers where you can get 3 loaves of bread cheaper BUT you have to put them in a special plastic bag with a bar-code on. So I give the check-out chick the empty plastic bag, tell her to scan it and to count the loaves before I take them off of the conveyor belt. I then leave her clutching the empty bag..

Which she will then promptly throw into the rubbish bin as it is too much effort for too little return to put it back again.

Safeway currently have a special on canned fish . I bought two slabs - the girl at the checkout then asked me to get a can from the display and scanned the same can 24 times!!! I do wonder who writes their software that they can't enter an item once and then multiply it by 24.

The software can do it. The problem lies in staff training

[adrian]

Do plastic bags actually pollute the environment or is it purely aesthetic? I know fish swallow them but what else?
What I mean to say is that if you bury a bag in landfill and then someone digs it up in a few hundred years has it actually polluted the environment. I would have thought that a bio-degradeable plastic bag that deteriorates to a point where it's constituent chemicals are leeched back into the environment would be a far worse polluter.

[Landseka]

Neil .... how can you manage to look so good for your age?

Why good Sir, I have always - and will always use.....Palmolive. So good on the complexion.

Regards

Neil

[Daddles]

Why good Sir, I have always - and will always use.....Palmolive. So good on the complexion.

Regards

Neil

I didn't know Palmolive made axle grease :eek:

Richard

[Iain]

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha

[Sturdee]

Do plastic bags actually pollute the environment or is it purely aesthetic? I know fish swallow them but what else?
What I mean to say is that if you bury a bag in landfill and then someone digs it up in a few hundred years has it actually polluted the environment. I would have thought that a bio-degradeable plastic bag that deteriorates to a point where it's constituent chemicals are leeched back into the environment would be a far worse polluter.

My view exactly, provided the plastic bags are properly disposed of into landfill there is no problem with the environment despite what all the politically correct greenies say.

Landfill has been used since time immemorial to dispose of unwanted stuff, and it hasn't ruined the environment. It is the littering and reckless thowing away that causes problems.

Besides what will future archeologists do if there is no landfill. :confused:

Peter.

[Bob Willson]

I was doing a bit of bush walking with my sister-inlaw a few years ago and I was eating an orange. of course, the peel was just flung into the bush. Did she go off her head about how it took 20 years for orange peel to completely detoriate. BIG BLOODY DEAL. Who cares? It is a part of nature that had just been returned to nature,. So what if she didn't especially like the colour orange in the bush? It is still going to rot down and provide food for something alse.
Apart from that, the greenies do themselves no favours by making outrageous claims such as these. Orange peel will disappear withing a few weeks. Just dry out and rot away.
You should have heard what she said when I threw a plastic bag onto the camp fire?

[Grunt]

Unfortunately, the plastic bags are not disposed of properly. Of the 6.9 billion plastic bags that are used in Australia each year. 80 odd million of them end up in the environment. 100,000 animals die as a result. They do take years to break down.

Our house hold has managed to reduce our bag use by more than 50%. It was simple. Buy half a dozen or so of the reusable bags and use them. Quite simple really. This isn't some thing cooked up by the politically correct greenies to annoy you.

Bob, you sister in-law is a little silly.