Enough already about PLASTIC #!!@&* BAGS

[Matt 72]

Lets Get Cate Blanchet Involved - She can save the world!

This is the greatest load of crap I have ever read from some people.

To Nat Marie and all of the other socialists out there who pander/support minority groups, let me say that it is not about the plastic bags. It is about the current governmnent making decisions that are touchy feely and derive zero benefit to our economy.

After all what is the alternative being offered? Oh I need to pay for my plastic bags which I re-use anyway as bin liners, etc. These are decisions being made because it is perceived to be a wonderful gesture for the environment and is very popular among the younger generation.

Are you aware that the 87% of carbon dioxide that enters the worlds atmosphere is a direct result of the sun reflecting off the worlds oceans.(That's right it is a natural phenomenon) The remaining 13% is contributed to be all inhabitants of the world. No I'm sure that you're not aware of that fact because it is not heavily promoted due to the numerous governments, scientists, businesses, influential people that draw their power in this world by pushing these issues.(Al Gore - The same guy who has a private jet that pollutes the world wherever he goes, and lives in a huge home that also heavily leaves a huge carbon footprint. What a Joke)

This whole environmental issue is too far gone and is a multi billion dollar industry with too many people deriving a benefit from. Unfortunately there are too many suckers out there who believe everything they hear and don't question the motives of those people who deliver the message. (Bono being one classic hypocrite)

Gotta Go and turn the lights out because I need to keep my Carbon Footprint to a minimum. Hey but if i was to join cubs or scouts when I was younger maybe I would have already been aware of these issues!

Bye

Matt

Look forward to the feedback

 

[DavidMc]

Oh I need to pay for my plastic bags which I re-use anyway as bin liners, etc.

Australians use roughly four billion disposable plastic shopping bags every year. An estimated 94 million of them end up in our parks, rivers, creeks, bays and beaches.

http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,23047163-5000117,00.html

 

[GoAnna!]

I find it frustrating that my colesonline shop comes with plastic bags. At the beginning it was delivered in a box.

I do recycle them as nappie bags, bin liners etc but it makes a mockery of them promoting the use of cloth bags in store.

 

[tubs]

I find it frustrating that my colesonline shop comes with plastic bags. At the beginning it was delivered in a box.

I do recycle them as nappie bags, bin liners etc but it makes a mockery of them promoting the use of cloth bags in store.

They would still come in a box, but they ran out of trees.

 

[Simon]

What you've written above is the biggest load... you're telling me you reuse ALL of your bags?

1 in 4 don't even get put into a bin let alone reused.



http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,23047163-5000117,00.html

We reuse all of our bags. One adult and two kids worth.

 

[GoAnna!]

They would still come in a box, but they ran out of trees.

haha There are boxes the products came in. They can be reused for deliveries. I imagine they dislike that as they would be harder to stack in the delivery truck.

In the fruit shop I just take a box if i forget my own bags as they are otherwise thrown away.

 

[DavidMc]

We reuse all of our bags. One adult and two kids worth.

That's great to hear. It's unfortunate you are the minority.

I shouldn't have asked Matt if he uses all of his bags. Maybe he does? Who knows. It's irrelevant really. What I meant to say was that in my opinion the 'but we reuse all our bags' is a poor argument for not having to look into solutions to the problem. The thing is, the vast majority doesn't. We can't make global decisions based on the actions of rare individuals.

Is the problem blown out of proportion? Probably.

 

[wylie]

That's great to hear. It's unfortunate you are the minority.

I agree. I have been to people's houses where the WHOLE of the cupboard under the sink is chock full of plastic bags.

 

[Simon]

Can someone please explain this or at least admit that they are too lazy/forgetful/thoughtless to not use plastic bags?

We have some of those green bags. I am too lazy/forgetful/thoughtless to keep them in my car to use at the shops.

 

[MichaelW]

We're pretty well balanced I think. We use the re-usable green and blue shopping bags for the most part, but typically only have about three so need the odd plastic bag to bridge the gap. But that's OK, as we use those plastic bags at home as bin liners and actually tend to run out more than we go into over-supply. When you have a 2 year old who's still in nappies you go through bin liners quite quickly...

OK, so now I sound really bad as we bin disposable nappies in plastic bags! The worst of the worst!! But we're actually greenies at heart. We too looked into the relative impact of disposable nappies versus the energy consumption and chemical usage in cleaning cloth nappies. Greenpeace put it at a marginal decision so we opted for ease of disposable. And all our plastic bags end up in landfill via our rubbish bin ultimately, and not in our waterways.

Cheers,
Michael

 

[GoAnna!]

I think most people are trying to do the right thing. Most of us are far from perfect.

We don't drive much (walk to school, shops etc) but our cars could be more fuel efficient.

We don't consume much in terms of general "stuff"

We could chose more local less packaged foods.

We accept second hand goods and pass on goods to those who need it. We encouraged second hand toys at the last birthday party.

We take short showers and try to minimise garden watering but we could do better and could recyle more water.

We should do an audit of our lives but we haven't.

We have a worn farm and mulch everything we can. We are anal about recycling all paper, containers etc to the point that we have taken rubbish away with us when the location we were at did not offer recycling.

We don't think what we do is world changing but we are making steps in the right direction. We will continue to improve.

 

[yo yo ma]

Everyone seems to treat it like cutting plastic bag use is going to save the world. Well, it WONT

And even if you ban them, then what happens. People just buy bin liners made out of...PLASTIC! Hey, maybe we can go back to paper bags. Yeah, that'd be great. Lets chop down a rainforest so we can get rid of plastic bags. Or lets not line our bins. Lets chuck all the food scraps straight in there. Of course, its got added benefits if you're obsessed with FLIES and COCKROACHES.

Nicely put tubs... kudos to you