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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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| 765915 | 2009-04-20 10:15:00 | I try and buy from bin inn as much as I can to avoid the packaging problem, I take my refillable containers | gary67 (56) | ||
| 765916 | 2009-04-20 10:17:00 | Here we go again......I remember just after the war I used to take a basin up to the shop at the top of the road to get icecream....when it first appeared again....they didn't put icecream in brown paper bags :lol: | Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 765917 | 2009-04-20 19:10:00 | If they fail to convince people to stop using plastic bags which are thin and more easily decomposable, imagine trying to convince people to stop using products contained by the things you've listed. Besides, they don't decompose as easily as you might think. They can take from a couple of years up to a 1000 to decompose. And when they decompose toxic stuff goes into the ground, then to river, then to sea..... Plastic bags compose very fast. I threw one on the ground, and when I looked back few minutes later it was gone! :illogical |
sam m (517) | ||
| 765918 | 2009-04-20 20:14:00 | They just had the Wharehouse guy on Breakfast, he insists that the environment is the main reason they are doing this. When asked about the break down time of the re-usable bags they sell he tried to avoid the question. These bags are made to be tough and wil take much more time to decompose than the bags already available. As for the donation, it'll be like McDonalds, who trumpet the Ronald McDonald house as their great charity work when most of the money comes from customer donations. From now on I'm planning to leave all the extraneous packaging that comes with my purchases in store . Way I see it, I don't need two layers of packaging, my nice new re-usable bag will be enough. Or as my wife says, it makes more sense to buy the extra big Wharehouse bags to use as bin liners on a cost basis. So for every small purchase we will want the biggest bag. |
limepile (96) | ||
| 765919 | 2009-04-20 20:22:00 | Once again "we" are all being punished for the actions of the few who litter with their plastic bags. The only legitimate reason against plastic bags is that they may end up littering the sea and the country side. But I don't do that, and I am sure most of our PressF1 members don't litter either. |
Digby (677) | ||
| 765920 | 2009-04-20 21:04:00 | They just had the Wharehouse guy on Breakfast, he insists that the environment is the main reason they are doing this. When asked about the break down time of the re-usable bags they sell he tried to avoid the question. These bags are made to be tough and wil take much more time to decompose than the bags already available. Or as my wife says, it makes more sense to buy the extra big Wharehouse bags to use as bin liners on a cost basis. So for every small purchase we will want the biggest bag. Guarantee when you exit the Warehouse with their big reusable bags it will be a search and destroy by their security people before you can leave because now you use this big bag you must be a shoplifter.. |
paulw (1826) | ||
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