The town of Modbury has banned plastic bags for 6 months. What's interesting to me is how residents are being supplied with cotton shopping bags, presumably for free. This strikes me as the best way to get people to stop using plastic. Give them the alternative and disincentivise the plastic, either through taxing them or an outright ban. Taxation could fund the initial supply of bags, thinking about it, meaning the council could supply every household with, say, ten bags without significant investment.
One to mull over...
One to mull over...
3 Comments:
You obviously have no idea how environmentally impactful cotton is. Where would the ten bags be stored. Most would leave them in the trunk so as not to forget them when going shopping. A quick calculation shows that we would collectively be transporting thousands of tons of extra weight in our vehicles everytime we travel - burnung more fossil fuels. hardly environmentally friendly.
Gerard, Sydney, Australia
lol-fnar!
The argument for plastic grocery bags is surprisingly strong - as are the bags themselves. But the really interesting thing the emotionally constrained folk of Modbury don't know is that there is such as thing as a biodegradable plastic bag. Check out this source. I have used one and they work just fine.
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