Council Member
Posts: 1,936 
Location: china
Location: china
June 2nd, 2008, 08:38 AM
China restricts use of plastic bags Beijing, June 1 (Xinhua) Wang Yali is busy packing her groceries at a supermarket as usual. However, she doesn't put her goods into plastic shopping bags, but stuffs them all into her own..
China restricts use of plastic bags Beijing, June 1 (Xinhua) Wang Yali is busy packing her groceries at a supermarket as usual. However, she doesn't put her goods into plastic shopping bags, but stuffs them all into her own..
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Posts: 4,612 
June 2nd, 2008, 10:02 AM
Missile
G'day!
I'm no expert (maybe ask Hermantrude..) but the chemical effluents produced by re-claiming paper products (stands to reason..) may be harmful as well. As I grew up we (Canadian society in general) went from recycleable cloth sacks and paper bags to paper bags to plastic ....
Like petroleum...people seem to believe that there exists some unlimited amount of fossil fuel energy in the world....and there's unlimited vacant land just waiting to be filled with plastic "conveniences"......
Buy cloth bags and reuse them until the cows come home!
Missile
G'day!
I'm no expert (maybe ask Hermantrude..) but the chemical effluents produced by re-claiming paper products (stands to reason..) may be harmful as well. As I grew up we (Canadian society in general) went from recycleable cloth sacks and paper bags to paper bags to plastic ....
Like petroleum...people seem to believe that there exists some unlimited amount of fossil fuel energy in the world....and there's unlimited vacant land just waiting to be filled with plastic "conveniences"......
Buy cloth bags and reuse them until the cows come home!
House Member
Posts: 4,480
Location: Saint John N.B.
Location: Saint John N.B.
June 2nd, 2008, 10:07 AM
I forget that for most of the year the paper bags would be in sorry shape by the time one reached their car in the supermarket parking lot and thenm the energy cost of recycling the bags. I've 4 of the cloth type bags here now 7 like 'em as they hold a lot of groceries and are easy to carry.
I forget that for most of the year the paper bags would be in sorry shape by the time one reached their car in the supermarket parking lot and thenm the energy cost of recycling the bags. I've 4 of the cloth type bags here now 7 like 'em as they hold a lot of groceries and are easy to carry.
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Location: Newfoundland!
Videos: 5
Location: Newfoundland!
June 2nd, 2008, 12:54 PM
we've just got some cloth bags but our problem is that we keep forgetting to take them with us.
we've just got some cloth bags but our problem is that we keep forgetting to take them with us.
sick and twisted
Posts: 2,537
Location: Backwater, Ontario.
Location: Backwater, Ontario.
June 4th, 2008, 05:53 PM
Cloth bags are great!!!!
................ And the cashiers always ask if they can pack them for us. Dandy nice, I'd say. Even in the place where yer supposed to pack your own, they grabem and fillem up. Actually clears the line up faster than letting you walk to the end of the conveyor and stop to fillem. \
AND!!!!! we save 5c per bag..................right............if you want plastic, you pay for it.
Here's for Hermanntrude!!! When you get home, throw the empty cloth bag on the floor near the door you use the most. Next time out, put it in the car. Works for me. Cause, I'm a slob, but my wife ain't and she just won't tolerate a cloth bag on the floor, near the door, no more.
That advice is free. Usually I charge.
Cloth bags are great!!!!
................ And the cashiers always ask if they can pack them for us. Dandy nice, I'd say. Even in the place where yer supposed to pack your own, they grabem and fillem up. Actually clears the line up faster than letting you walk to the end of the conveyor and stop to fillem. \
AND!!!!! we save 5c per bag..................right............if you want plastic, you pay for it.
Here's for Hermanntrude!!! When you get home, throw the empty cloth bag on the floor near the door you use the most. Next time out, put it in the car. Works for me. Cause, I'm a slob, but my wife ain't and she just won't tolerate a cloth bag on the floor, near the door, no more.
That advice is free. Usually I charge.
Ponderous Intellect
Posts: 3,847
Location: Victoria, BC
Location: Victoria, BC
June 5th, 2008, 07:01 AM
I've been using cloth bags as a matter of convenience, although I still have been using plastic as well. After seeing the damage they do, I'm switching.
Here's a PowerPoint presentation that someone sent me recently. I hate seeing the pictures, but it sure affected me.
http://www.mediafire.com/?ynwr2tvzb2y
I've been using cloth bags as a matter of convenience, although I still have been using plastic as well. After seeing the damage they do, I'm switching.
Here's a PowerPoint presentation that someone sent me recently. I hate seeing the pictures, but it sure affected me.
http://www.mediafire.com/?ynwr2tvzb2y
