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  • richard
    *gasp* Shocking! Once you start though, you'll wonder why you never did.
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    I'm afraid I'm the asshole who never recycles.
 

Jun 29
2009

Posted by richard

Well as usual, Mondays are rubbish collection day. I put out the grey bin (for recyclables) and didn’t put out the green one as I didn’t have a chance at the weekend to do any gardening. Or rather, I was too lazy to do any.

Today when I got home I found the bin unemptied and a note on the top of it saying that supermarket bags were not acceptable in the grey bin.

That’s a bit odd, given that supermarket bags are made from polyethylene, which most certainly is recyclable! So for the sake of one sodding plastic bag I have to wait another two weeks to get the grey bin emptied! Bastards!

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Mar 8
2008

Posted by richard

Recently here in the UK, Marks and Spencer announced they would be charging for plastic bags (from their food section only I think it was). Something miniscule like 5p a bag. But still, given the amount of plastic bags they use (which is dwarfed by the big food supermarkets) that would be a tidy sum.

Everyone else is now jumping on the bandwagon, and my recent visit to the Co-op reveals they are doing the same, pushing a cotton bag versus the plastic bags which are now hidden underneath the counter.

My question is though – why do this when the plastic bags -they- give out are eco-friendly and biodegradable? I don’t believe many of the other supermarket chains have biodegradable bags, so why follow suit?

Saying plastic bags are bad for the environment is one thing, but using flawed studies to justify banning them is another. Follow that previous link and it tells you why a study looking at plastic -nets- was used to lasso plastic bags in as well.

We’re becoming too dependent on talking heads without getting real and valuable data on these products. Soon we’ll be banning streetlights because it hurts animals’ eyes, or banning bricks because rats can’t burrow through them (you know that some idiot somewhere is probably pushing a lunatic claim like that…).

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