So why are plastic bags bad?
I still don’t understand.
Even more so since I went to Tescos the other day and noticed that their bags are biodegradable. So that’s the problem of them lasting zillions of years gone (I still say that’s not a problem if you incinerate or landfill anyway - its irresponsible disposal which is the problem - just as it is for orange peel, or tin cans, or glass bottles. Going to ban them too?)
It just seems to be received wisdom that plastic bags are bad. Surely we should be questioning the status quo and received wisdom, and with plastic bag bans, it just does not hold up as far as I can tell.
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March 6th, 2008 at 4:29 pm
It certainly to me seems to be more about gestures and appearances than any real change, and certainly the supermarkets will do well out of this. A decade ago they wanted to charge for bags but the consumers didn’t like it, now the government is forcing the consumers to do what they were told all that time ago and give supermarkets their profits without ANY kind of plan for where the money will be spent and without any such noise being made about the level of plastic and environmentally unfriendly materials used by packagers.