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belladonna
Plastic Bag usage is a big issue. Do you want to take action or let the Government charge lots more taxes as the Irish Government does? The only real way to do prevent more taxes and charges is to use hemp or cotton bags, use canvas rucksacks, shopping trolleys or not to use bags at all.
WHY?
Plastic Bags: There are a lot of reasons given why people 'like' plastic bags. However, they still never decompose no matter how many times you use them. This is compounded when people tie their rubbish into plastic bags. If you insist on using plastic bags you will be charged high taxes for doing so. So re-use as many times as possible then take them supermarket to be recycled.
Biodegradeable Bags/Bioplastics: Polylactic acid (PLA) a biodegradable polymer derived from lactic acid. These vegetable based bioplastics biodegrades quickly under composting conditions and does not leave toxic residue. However, bioplastic have own environmental impacts caused by manufacturing and disposal of end product. Again you will be charged for these impacts and taxed
but on the plus side biodegradable bags (from potato and corn starches) are a new thriving industry
Paper Bags. Great if singly composted. In land fill can take years for layers to decompose. Still an organic material. But there is cost of production, costs to environment of pulp trees (monocultures, loss of habitat, etc) costs of recycling/disposal. Again you will have to pay for these production costs and disposal costs and taxed.
In UK instead of stop supplying plastic bags you get rewards for bringing your own. Money back, green points. Even with supermarket home delivery See Tesco. This has not been effective so we are back to taxes. In New Zealand Cloth bags are already promoted and sold in supermarkets. However this is not stopping plastic bag useage.
France is banning plastic bags 2007 others are moving towards it. The most effective is taxing plastic bag use. If we do not take action we will be taxed as the Irish are for using plastic bags. Effective as a decrease of 90% plastic bag use in Ireland.
****Jet 20 a good question For a local government the issues are that plastic bags account for 8,000 tons of waste generated in Paris each year, at a cost of more than $2 million. And burning plastic bags to dispose of them poses a health hazard. They never decompose so bulk out landfill sites. How much money is spent by your local council retrieving discarded plastic products and taking them to the tip? If these biodegrade then they would not be a problem. No litter collection, less refuse collection, less tax too. Local councils charges because they are charged by central government who in turn has to pay penalties for landfill (charges)
********Chuck T the disposer will be your local council/authority. Landfill taxes/refuse collection taxes, central government penalties etc etc. Then they pass these taxes on to YOU. The rate payer. Burning plastics is not an answer - toxins are harmful to man and environment.
***** Chuck T. What is proper disposal of plastics. No landfill space left. Can't burn. Don't decompose.??
******* AuntB93 Yes I use cotton bags too. In UK the stores have tried to reduce plastic bag usage with points, money back and in store recycling. This has not been effective enough. There are no more landfill sites. Look at current position of ITALY and rubbish due to this issue. NO I don't want to be taxed either but it is very effective method easy for Governments to apply and unless we act and reduce it ourselves (canvas or cotton bags) then they are left with ban plastic bags or tax. Public outrage or More Revenue? Wonder which your government will chose?
***AuntB93 We cannot get rid of plastics so we have to recycle them so many items are made from the recycled plastic. If they were made out of wood they would return to the earth by decomposing eventually. Again processing and disposal is expensive in cash and environmental terms.
I totally agree governments waste money, resources and creativity. I would suggest people power. If everybody took canvas/cotton bags the market would have no choice but to act responsibly. There is lot of power in market solutions that is not available to the average man. Have a look at some of the ways you are 'persuaded' to buy something. Take that choice away from the market. Put it firmly back in the hands of the person. It is so easy: everybody takes a canvas/cotton/hemp bag.
Answer
In Britain I used a market basket, tried to use it here in college and was told it was against store packaging policies. Then came fabric bags, I use these as often as possible. When I was in Canada, I lived near pulp mills. Don't ever let anybody tell you there's less pollution in paper! You haven't seen cyanide dumped in the water and sulphur dioxide in the air, or sugar maples and spruce trees replaced by fast growing tree weeds like cottonwood, poplar, silver leaf maples, Manitoba maples and Siberian elm. Plastic bags are reusable and recyclable, but also way overused. Our local store insists that New York law says they have to put a six-pack in one as well as all sorts of other things which have their own packaging and handles that are easier to grab and support than the flimsy bags which break. While taxes may be an incentive to change our government more often abuses such things without any real change taking place. We have bottle refunds and just look at all the bottles and cans which litter our highways, while the state uses the surplus collected as a slush fund. Stores also regularly abuse the law, charging for containers they will refuse to accept returned. Can you imagine what happens when they extend this to bags? And they'll still pack bags within bags within bags. I regularly ask for paper rather than plastic only to be told, "we don't have that", or bring my own bags to be told,"those aren't ours, we can't use them", or distinctly look for boxes to carry heavy items (they don't break or tear like paper or plastic bags) only to find any the store had are in their dumpster broken down underneath smelly and rotting trash. Most of these stores are following policies of major chains rather than small grocers that are locally owned like there were once upon a time. The chains are always looking at the bottom line which means volume, volume, volume, rapid turnover of inventory, and the necessary discouragement of theft, pilfering, and tampering (understandable, unfortunately), so things are grossly over packaged in large plastic, break resistant displays, or each individual piece separately plastic bagged and cushioned in form moulded styrofoam in plastic lined boxes with shrink wrapped plastic seals and tons of tape. Did you know it frequently takes getting through no less than four seals to open a simple bottle of pills? And once opened less than 1/3 of the bottle or vial contains pills, the rest is packing. All this goes somewhere, we pay taxes on the disposal. Yet nobody ever seems to attack this waste, they just call for more of it by yet more government regulations. The Irish and most other peoples throughout the Commonwealth, have very different attitudes to law and respecting people and the environment than Americans do. Moral education is part of their normal school curriculum. They regularly see more benefit from their taxes than we do, and are more amenable to paying and establishing taxes as a vehicle of change. It won't work here until we're ready to work at it.
Proper disposal of plastic is to RECYCLE it,and I don't mean use it as a trash bag! I've seen porches built from recycled plastic and beautiful carpets woven from it. The fact that plastic doesn't degrade and deteriorate can be as positive as it is negative. It can save an awful lot of trees, and prevent a lot of environmental poisoning. Simple answers aren't always the easiest. And we can't expect government to do it.
I live in a rural area, am no longer able to drive, and have extremely limited shopping options since my wife works nights. If I boycott, I don't shop, and the store which is overcrowded doesn't miss me in the least. So should I pay more?
In Britain I used a market basket, tried to use it here in college and was told it was against store packaging policies. Then came fabric bags, I use these as often as possible. When I was in Canada, I lived near pulp mills. Don't ever let anybody tell you there's less pollution in paper! You haven't seen cyanide dumped in the water and sulphur dioxide in the air, or sugar maples and spruce trees replaced by fast growing tree weeds like cottonwood, poplar, silver leaf maples, Manitoba maples and Siberian elm. Plastic bags are reusable and recyclable, but also way overused. Our local store insists that New York law says they have to put a six-pack in one as well as all sorts of other things which have their own packaging and handles that are easier to grab and support than the flimsy bags which break. While taxes may be an incentive to change our government more often abuses such things without any real change taking place. We have bottle refunds and just look at all the bottles and cans which litter our highways, while the state uses the surplus collected as a slush fund. Stores also regularly abuse the law, charging for containers they will refuse to accept returned. Can you imagine what happens when they extend this to bags? And they'll still pack bags within bags within bags. I regularly ask for paper rather than plastic only to be told, "we don't have that", or bring my own bags to be told,"those aren't ours, we can't use them", or distinctly look for boxes to carry heavy items (they don't break or tear like paper or plastic bags) only to find any the store had are in their dumpster broken down underneath smelly and rotting trash. Most of these stores are following policies of major chains rather than small grocers that are locally owned like there were once upon a time. The chains are always looking at the bottom line which means volume, volume, volume, rapid turnover of inventory, and the necessary discouragement of theft, pilfering, and tampering (understandable, unfortunately), so things are grossly over packaged in large plastic, break resistant displays, or each individual piece separately plastic bagged and cushioned in form moulded styrofoam in plastic lined boxes with shrink wrapped plastic seals and tons of tape. Did you know it frequently takes getting through no less than four seals to open a simple bottle of pills? And once opened less than 1/3 of the bottle or vial contains pills, the rest is packing. All this goes somewhere, we pay taxes on the disposal. Yet nobody ever seems to attack this waste, they just call for more of it by yet more government regulations. The Irish and most other peoples throughout the Commonwealth, have very different attitudes to law and respecting people and the environment than Americans do. Moral education is part of their normal school curriculum. They regularly see more benefit from their taxes than we do, and are more amenable to paying and establishing taxes as a vehicle of change. It won't work here until we're ready to work at it.
Proper disposal of plastic is to RECYCLE it,and I don't mean use it as a trash bag! I've seen porches built from recycled plastic and beautiful carpets woven from it. The fact that plastic doesn't degrade and deteriorate can be as positive as it is negative. It can save an awful lot of trees, and prevent a lot of environmental poisoning. Simple answers aren't always the easiest. And we can't expect government to do it.
I live in a rural area, am no longer able to drive, and have extremely limited shopping options since my wife works nights. If I boycott, I don't shop, and the store which is overcrowded doesn't miss me in the least. So should I pay more?
What was your crazy experience in a foreign country?
truthseeke
Like when you went to a foreign country what happened to you over their that was fun,crazy,something that you never been or saw before tell me your experience and what country was it and what did you miss when you left that country.
Answer
I have 3 actually. All Missionary work. 1. Mexico, staying with many other people and in a triangle; housing, ocean & very old, worn out bull fighting ring, people selling fish tacos w/lime juice. Exquisite. Low tide, full sun, very easy to fool self, on vacation at beach resort. Sad, and horrific and glad bull ring ended. 2. Nigeria, arrival day; seeing Military guards w/AK47's & 45's on hips, going through customs, I was the only one not open to scrutiny...I used a Military bag instead of a suitcase, as the others did. Two torrential rains, per day, our car flooded, ankles soaked. At bunk house later in the day; hundreds of people ran up to visit and help us unpack our 5 cars, even tiny children. All so loving. I still miss that. Smiles from ear to ear. Joyfulness of small children. 3. Holland, felt like coming home. Van Gogh Museum was the best for me (my favorite artist of all time, to me much better than the famous Rembrandt). MY opinion! No mail thanks! Teen guys trying to eat glass, drumming on a bucket outside Grand Central Station; concerts in Rembrandt Square; they (singers, musicians, etc) would go door to door (cafe to cafe which are side by side with tables & umbrellas), people giving them $; a bus, trolley, train every 15 minutes...grab the train & GO TO PARIS, FRANCE! or a boatride to Denmark or the train on to Germany. Oh what opportunities. Funnest thing done there, was 3 things. Cheese Factory, oh how can I get it into my suitcase, was my thought. Must weight 20 lbs. The Shoe Factory, made shoes of wood, from a hunk lying on the floor. A size 10 would end up being size 86 there. The Chocolate Factory was closed, the Pewter Factory was only making spoons, cool. One working Wind Mill was grinding seeds. Now the funniest was this: We (2 of us) switched a bedroom with one of the guys in our STORM Team. We switched everything, across the hall while he was out "seeing the city" for the last time. Even the door # was switched. But, we kept it all, just like he left it; you know, bed unmade, stuff lying around etc. Then we 2 left the building. Came back later when we felt he would be "asleep"?...no way! He waited for us to return. He had gone to the front desk, demanding his stuff be returned, or calling the Police. Finally, everyone knew it was a practical joke on him. He began to search the floor, and found all of his stuff across the hall. He was laughing when we arrived back and so thankful to us. We had no idea; outside the window was a huge Cutty Sark in the channel, in front of the Maritime Museum. He was able to see the City of Amsterdam, from one end to the other; people driving, walking, boats, birds, tree tops.....when before all he could see was the inside court yard of a 6 story building. A Practical Joke, which turned out super for everyone concerned. We truly miss those wonderful times.
So, IF YOU ever have the chance to visit Europe, GO! Borrow $100 from every single person you know, each family member, all your college, high school friends and GO! Find a reputable place to stay; we stayed at the DTS with YWAM, across from the Maritime Museum. A huge, old, stone building; full of Maritime history. Visit every Museum, walk, travel & take tons of Traveler's Cheques + Cash, store it in several places. Stay up late, go to McDonald's, Dominoe's Pizza next door and 31 Flavors, Baskin Robbins, across the channel and stay out from under eaves; full of spiders. Eat well, and ENJOY!
bye.........zzscape.
I have 3 actually. All Missionary work. 1. Mexico, staying with many other people and in a triangle; housing, ocean & very old, worn out bull fighting ring, people selling fish tacos w/lime juice. Exquisite. Low tide, full sun, very easy to fool self, on vacation at beach resort. Sad, and horrific and glad bull ring ended. 2. Nigeria, arrival day; seeing Military guards w/AK47's & 45's on hips, going through customs, I was the only one not open to scrutiny...I used a Military bag instead of a suitcase, as the others did. Two torrential rains, per day, our car flooded, ankles soaked. At bunk house later in the day; hundreds of people ran up to visit and help us unpack our 5 cars, even tiny children. All so loving. I still miss that. Smiles from ear to ear. Joyfulness of small children. 3. Holland, felt like coming home. Van Gogh Museum was the best for me (my favorite artist of all time, to me much better than the famous Rembrandt). MY opinion! No mail thanks! Teen guys trying to eat glass, drumming on a bucket outside Grand Central Station; concerts in Rembrandt Square; they (singers, musicians, etc) would go door to door (cafe to cafe which are side by side with tables & umbrellas), people giving them $; a bus, trolley, train every 15 minutes...grab the train & GO TO PARIS, FRANCE! or a boatride to Denmark or the train on to Germany. Oh what opportunities. Funnest thing done there, was 3 things. Cheese Factory, oh how can I get it into my suitcase, was my thought. Must weight 20 lbs. The Shoe Factory, made shoes of wood, from a hunk lying on the floor. A size 10 would end up being size 86 there. The Chocolate Factory was closed, the Pewter Factory was only making spoons, cool. One working Wind Mill was grinding seeds. Now the funniest was this: We (2 of us) switched a bedroom with one of the guys in our STORM Team. We switched everything, across the hall while he was out "seeing the city" for the last time. Even the door # was switched. But, we kept it all, just like he left it; you know, bed unmade, stuff lying around etc. Then we 2 left the building. Came back later when we felt he would be "asleep"?...no way! He waited for us to return. He had gone to the front desk, demanding his stuff be returned, or calling the Police. Finally, everyone knew it was a practical joke on him. He began to search the floor, and found all of his stuff across the hall. He was laughing when we arrived back and so thankful to us. We had no idea; outside the window was a huge Cutty Sark in the channel, in front of the Maritime Museum. He was able to see the City of Amsterdam, from one end to the other; people driving, walking, boats, birds, tree tops.....when before all he could see was the inside court yard of a 6 story building. A Practical Joke, which turned out super for everyone concerned. We truly miss those wonderful times.
So, IF YOU ever have the chance to visit Europe, GO! Borrow $100 from every single person you know, each family member, all your college, high school friends and GO! Find a reputable place to stay; we stayed at the DTS with YWAM, across from the Maritime Museum. A huge, old, stone building; full of Maritime history. Visit every Museum, walk, travel & take tons of Traveler's Cheques + Cash, store it in several places. Stay up late, go to McDonald's, Dominoe's Pizza next door and 31 Flavors, Baskin Robbins, across the channel and stay out from under eaves; full of spiders. Eat well, and ENJOY!
bye.........zzscape.
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