It's official, plastic bags are public enemy number one!
As an innovative invention fifties, no one gave a second thought to 'le plastique bag' until recent years.
Useful in many ways, and not talk about doubling as a bag of garbage in many a bedroom, The plastic bag has been recognized as a danger to our environment.
It looks like a plastic bag-free future for all. Many countries are launching environmental structures to stop the spread of this blot on the landscape, the United Kingdom, South Africa and Australia to name a few.
The powers at be in San Francisco, for example, bought into law in 2007, prohibits the use of plastic bags. With a population of approximately 752,000, was estimated that the city generates over 1,400 tons of waste per year, only plastic bags.
Not being biodegradable has been one of the "fallen PBS expressed by a non-renewable natural resources-oil means simply can not be. And that crushes reading this, photodegrades plastic, which means, the process of breaking the plastic into smaller pieces and therefore the pollution to our soil, waterways and oceans.
Basically, it breaks down and never will! Wikipedia can also fill in this …
The plastic bag also hates animals. Animals eat their food thinking. They get all caught up in it and then starve. It so sad and inevitable, if we all act together sooner rather than later …
Large supermarket chains are offering an alternative to the plastic bag offering "a bag for life." Tesco for example, then add a new incentive scheme with Green Clubcard points that can save their customers more of money from their grocery shopping.
While Sainsbury's produces around 1.6 billion bags a year. And they have given 15 million "bags for life "in the last year to its customers. They have changed the materials used in their bags free to include 10% to reduce the use of plastic chalk virgin and the state in which the plastic bags with handles are made of 33% recycled material.
So where do we go from here then? All world has an idea about this and how to address the immediate and long-term problem there. And I guess the good thing now is that companies large and small, become thinking seriously about this issue, for once, out of their own backs or by force by the new legislation.
In the budget this year however was announced that the British Government would bring in legislation in 2009 to reduce the number of plastic bags in use by 12 billion. Also little, too late? Such time … Why wait until 2009 then?
Back to the bags for just a second. For all fashion lovers out there, it is not necessary in these days to dress up in green. Some of the alternative bags for life out there not everything that we know they are. But there are some big bags out so now there really is no excuse. A great one we found was this one of rel = "nofollow" href = "http://www.bagsofchange.co.uk/"> http://www.bagsofchange.co.uk/
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