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| Thread ID: 99027 | 2009-04-17 00:31:00 | Plastic Shopping Bags - I use them | Digby (677) | PC World Chat |
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| 765895 | 2009-04-18 11:02:00 | Yeah, point duly noted. I'm getting married in about 10 weeks and found out this week I have the privilege of finding myself a new place of employment, Bummer. On the job, not the marriage:thumbs:. I managed to quit my job yesterday, well, was forced out of the company by my increasingly unstable brother who no one seems willing to bring into line. Glad I didn't manage to cash in my holiday pay, Though at the moment I have no "plan B". Plus I smashed my $700 phone and have cut ties with a number of people including a few family members. All in all a Grand ****ing day. |
Metla (12) | ||
| 765896 | 2009-04-18 11:10:00 | Come up to Auckland, they are always smashing down buildings up here. 2 main firms here Wards and Nikau, Nikau is even doing earthworks on the new motorway. |
prefect (6291) | ||
| 765897 | 2009-04-18 11:16:00 | Come up to Auckland, they are always smashing down buildings up here. 2 main firms here Wards and Nikau, Nikau is even doing earthworks on the new motorway. They are the opposition for many of the large scale demolition jobs, and as much as I consider my family a pack of ****s I would not actively work against them. Besides, I lived in Auckland for a number of years, If I had to go to a larger centre for work then Auckland wouldn't even be on the list. Miserable city. |
Metla (12) | ||
| 765898 | 2009-04-18 14:19:00 | We use the bigger fabric reuesable shopping bags, I see no reason why you couldnt take your old plastic shopping bags back to the supermarket and reuse them again. I burn all our rubbish, I find the more plastic the better the flame. I send nothing to the landfill. |
Rob99 (151) | ||
| 765899 | 2009-04-18 20:49:00 | They are the opposition for many of the large scale demolition jobs, and as much as I consider my family a pack of ****s I would not actively work against them. Besides, I lived in Auckland for a number of years, If I had to go to a larger centre for work then Auckland wouldn't even be on the list. Miserable city. At least you won't freeze various parts off in the deep south!. |
Cicero (40) | ||
| 765900 | 2009-04-19 03:12:00 | We use the bigger fabric reuesable shopping bags, I see no reason why you couldnt take your old plastic shopping bags back to the supermarket and reuse them again. Before they introduced and encouraged the use of the reusable shopping bags I got a bit concerned at the build-up of my plastic supermarket bags. Despite using them to line the kitchen rubbish bin they still accumulated at an alarming rate and I couldn't bring myself to throw away perfectly good bags so I started taking them to the supermarkets to use again. They didn't like this much as the bags took longer to hook over their bag holders and didn't stay open as well as their new ones whilst goods were being packed. One supermarket even told me I couldn't use their competitor's bags so I just said "Suit yourself, no skin off my nose if you don't want to save a few cents using my recycled ones. Next time I'll use them in the other supermarket." :p :p This was a few years ago now so I consider myself quite a trend setter, given the attitudes towards plastic bags now. :cool: :D |
FoxyMX (5) | ||
| 765901 | 2009-04-19 19:11:00 | What really gets my goat is that the supermarkets are supposedly doing his for " environmental " reasons when you and I both know that it is just a way of keeping their expenses down. In fact I believe that they will now start to make a profit on the bags, If they really had good intentions they would offer an alternative, maybe paper bags. And the cardboard box thing is a cunning way to get you to remove their rubbish. We have just had the fee for rubbish removal at work raised and been advised that a new system is to be introduced where the rubbish is split into categories and charged for its environmental impact....the boss now burns most of our rubbish. |
limepile (96) | ||
| 765902 | 2009-04-19 22:08:00 | I've seen the sort of pollution plastic bags cause when I traveled through Vietnam and China two years ago. The sides of the roads were littered with them. I know we bury/burn them in NZ, but it showed how persistent they can be in the environment. I always refuse a plastic bag if the item can fit in my handbag or if I'm going straight back to the car. I use the green cloth shopping bags at the supermarket most of the time, except when I've forgotten to take them with me or I've run out of my plastic bag supply at home and need a top up. :p |
Jen (38) | ||
| 765903 | 2009-04-19 22:34:00 | Before they introduced and encouraged the use of the reusable shopping bags I got a bit concerned at the build-up of my plastic supermarket bags. Despite using them to line the kitchen rubbish bin they still accumulated at an alarming rate and I couldn't bring myself to throw away perfectly good bags so I started taking them to the supermarkets to use again. They didn't like this much as the bags took longer to hook over their bag holders and didn't stay open as well as their new ones whilst goods were being packed. One supermarket even told me I couldn't use their competitor's bags so I just said "Suit yourself, no skin off my nose if you don't want to save a few cents using my recycled ones. Next time I'll use them in the other supermarket." :p :p This was a few years ago now so I consider myself quite a trend setter, given the attitudes towards plastic bags now. :cool: :D I do that with the smaller bags used to put fruit and stuff in, but they should be replaced with paper ones - they do it for the donuts! |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 765904 | 2009-04-20 00:16:00 | Well.... just bought a plastic bag for the first time - Warehouse in Motueka. Tossed up whether to buy or balance the half a dozen small items for a couple of km walk... the bag won. | Scouse (83) | ||
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