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| Thread ID: 146728 | 2018-11-05 21:08:00 | no more plastic shoping bags | 1101 (13337) | PC World Chat |
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| 1455345 | 2019-01-20 18:35:00 | The single use plastic bags at Supermarkets were great. They were cheap (under 1 cent) clean, hygenic and fast and convenient. I don't litter. I think you're missing the point. Just because you don't litter doesn't mean that everyone else follows suit. Now I use one or two plastic boxes (cubes from Mitre 10). I take them in and put them in my trolley. When they are full that's all I buy. Nice and easy to carry out from the car to the house. Sounds like you've come up with a good, working solution... so why are you complaining so much? |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1455346 | 2019-01-20 19:54:00 | I think you're missing the point. Just because you don't litter doesn't mean that everyone else follows suit. the pigs are dropping empty plastic bottles and McDonanlds packaging, not plastic bags :) trash dumping trash :mad: Not sure why so many now litter . Even those from well off white families . Local sports field after a kids cricket game or Adults soccer, just so much trash left on and around the field. No one takes responsibility to clean up the mess after the games finished Even the Ak council is slowly removing rubbish bins from public areas. The public cant be trusted not to mis-use rubbish bins at beaches and shopping centres Its sad , it points to the move towards a self centred , uncaring attitude that we used to associate with other cultures, not kiwi's . |
1101 (13337) | ||
| 1455347 | 2019-01-20 20:55:00 | I live across the road from a dairy, so litter is common around my road frontage and under my trees that border the street. Some people are just lazy @#$e#$%es and will drop litter anywhere out of sight rather than deal with it properly. The unfortunate side effect is we have to cater to the lowest common denominator when coming up with solutions or it won't work. However plastic bags find their way into the ocean the only way to stop it is to cut it off at the source. Anything else requires people to actually give a sh@# and too many don't and never will. I undertand councils not wanting to deal with rubbish bins, but it seems backwards to me. I think they should put more in, put them all over the place. Surely dealing with overflowing bins is better than having it scattered all over the place not in bins. The only way to stop litter really is to make it easier and more convenient not to, or some people always will. |
dugimodo (138) | ||
| 1455348 | 2019-01-20 20:59:00 | Getting more pissed off with this stupid plastic bag crap the further it goes on. NW in Lower Hutt wanted 20c for a paper bag for me to put my shopping in coz I forgot to grab one out of the car. These s/markets are pissing themselves playing us for fools. Not sure karma's gonna help with this one. |
allblack (6574) | ||
| 1455349 | 2019-01-20 21:15:00 | Really? You tasted the cardboard boxes then? :clap:clap:clap:lol::lol::lol: |
beetle (243) | ||
| 1455350 | 2019-01-20 21:25:00 | the pigs are dropping empty plastic bottles and McDonanlds packaging, not plastic bags :) trash dumping trash :mad: I've seen my fair share of bags lying around, maybe your area is better for that. The worst one that gets me are the people who bag up their dog sh!t but then don't put it in the bin - congratulations, you've now made more mess than if you just left the sh!t to rot away on its own! Really annoying too since it's in a park area with plenty of bins nearby. |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1455351 | 2019-01-20 21:28:00 | I've started ensuring I take a Countdown bag whenever I go to New World, and a new world bag when I'm down the other end of town at Countdown. I also got told off for unwrapping a pack of bananas and leaving the wrapping at the counter. Like others have said before, it's pretty much every other plastic except for the plastic bags that are the problem. From my bedroom window here, I see cars drive up to the bins in the carpark and just chuck everything in. It's always the plastic bottles or wrapping that ends up just outside of the bins. At least the council empties the bins here daily, and cleans up weekly. |
the_bogan (9949) | ||
| 1455352 | 2019-01-20 21:44:00 | However plastic bags find their way into the ocean the only way to stop it is to cut it off at the source . . as does most other plastic waste packaging . Especially plastic bottles . They get washed into the sea via stormwater drains & heavy rains . My streets stormwater empties into the creek at the end of my section: I see plastic bottles in there as they get washed out to sea . Somehow its too hard too make plastic bottles returnable for 10c . That used to be the way we did it with glass bottles , now its just too hard . Greenies make claims that plastic bags get blown around by the wind . Yep , we all see the skies filled with old plastic bags so they had to be banned Its just a case of banning shopping bags as thats easy & they can pretend thats making the big change . Is tokenism unless they address the issues with all the other plastic waste . I forgot to take bags to the supermarket again this week . had to buy another 20c plastic shopping bag . Seems plastic shopping bags are perfectly OK if you pay for them . . . . . . |
1101 (13337) | ||
| 1455353 | 2019-01-20 22:58:00 | It's nice and breezy here today. Gonna go across the road to hunting and fishing, get some nylon and make kites out of the half dozen new world plastic bags I own | the_bogan (9949) | ||
| 1455354 | 2019-01-21 00:03:00 | Was told that I couldn't take the green plactic shoping basket out of the CD supermaket today. I told the young fella: "Watch me!!!" I did return the basket after I have transferred my groceries into a plastic bag that I had in the boot of my car. Cant' get used to taking the damn bag into the supermarket when I leave the car. :) |
Zippity (58) | ||
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