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Should Plastic Bags be Banned?......
- Thread starter Madam Jacqui
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ASK THE DOLPHINS?
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Ahoy I luv to Drink out of a Brown Paper Bag, not the same if it was plastic, Yeah I agree get rid of plastic Bags.
All Hail the Brown Paper Bag..............
All Hail the Brown Paper Bag..............
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If only people were more considerate in the manner of disposal of all waste products...
especially plastic.
especially plastic.
ziggy
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markeys
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The whole concept of getting rid of plastic bags is flawed and based on greater corporate profit,
instead of plastic bags for our grocery's at the supermarket we are now supposed to buy these cloth bags,(environmental cost to manufacture, dies, transport, etc etc),
so after paying money for these bags we then go home and unpack our grocery's and then stuff all our rubbish in plastic bags we have just payed more money for that then go into a landfill and cause problems.
Ill just stick to using plastic bags to bring my shopping home and "recycling" them into rubbish bags.
instead of plastic bags for our grocery's at the supermarket we are now supposed to buy these cloth bags,(environmental cost to manufacture, dies, transport, etc etc),
so after paying money for these bags we then go home and unpack our grocery's and then stuff all our rubbish in plastic bags we have just payed more money for that then go into a landfill and cause problems.
Ill just stick to using plastic bags to bring my shopping home and "recycling" them into rubbish bags.
Morgan Sapphire
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I think we should be charged for plastic bags. I use material shopping bags I buy from my local markets and they have so far lasted for 2 years. And as for the rubbish bin, I use fully biodegradable bags which do break down once disposed of in the correct manner.
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Plastic bags should be made out of a thicker guage plastic so when they go through the blades in a recycling plant and washed it doesn't blunten the blades. Recycling is a very good way, right now, the thinness of the bags does the above so they don't recycle them. The bluntening of blades by plastic bags was told to me by a guy that worked in a recycling plant in SA!
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I am thought you were in south oz? they've been banned there for a while
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Recycling can have its down side too I am sure HP has seen it People rummaging through the litter bins in the Mall and such areas looking for plastic bottles to get the 10c payment for returning the bottles
And its not only homeless/poor doing it Kids getting extra pocket money others are collecting for charities etc But it is a real bad look in a tourist area
And its not only homeless/poor doing it Kids getting extra pocket money others are collecting for charities etc But it is a real bad look in a tourist area
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Ahoy Bushseeker I am in Adelaide Sth Aust.............Yes plastic bags have been danned in Sth Aust. Here what happen, all major shops officially cannot give you a plastic bag, but all shops can sell you a plastic bag. Now when you go to the chippie, you have to pay for the plastic bag LOL
"We all use material carry bags"
"We all use material carry bags"
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Ahoy I do agree with H2, but it is a lot of pensioners that look for re-cycle bottles, these days in our city streets it is hard to find a bottle left on a roadway. One person drops it another will pick it up..................
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I have been on a personal crusade against plastic shopping bags for a few years now. My cloth bags live in the car so they are always handy and if I buy something when I don't have one with me I carry it "naked" with the docket held next to it so the door staff don't think it is stolen.
I can't avoid bread bags but they get reused for food scraps.
I can't avoid bread bags but they get reused for food scraps.
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Fabric bags all the way. The ones I have have lasted years are they aren't showing signs of needing replacement yet. The more people reusing their fabric bags the less demand there will be and in the end less produced. Same with the plastic bags, when companies have boxes of them moving slower and slower out their doors they won't commission them. While paper bags can come from plantation trees the colossal amount of water used in their production is staggering compared to the value that is a highly reusable fabric bag.