Plastic Bags are Great again

[Nicad]

Interesting study that pits plastic against Cotton. This only works in a country where they don't litter and harvest the energy in plastic
https://twitter.com/BjornLomborg/status/974328993947283457/photo/1?ref_src=twsrc^tfw&ref_url=http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2018/03/the-sound-of-se-617.html#comments

 

[teahead]

C'mon, seriously?

Which country does not litter? All of them do, some worse than others (African countries, Asian countries especially India). The oceans is getting flooded w/bags, which in turn, gets eaten by animals, which in turn, gets eaten by us.

DOn't know about you, but I'm not wanting my body full of plastic.

https://www.ecowatch.com/arctic-plastic-pollution-2532782515.html

https://www.sciencealert.com/one-of...ighest-density-of-plastic-trash-ever-recorded

 

[Nicad]

I was in Austria this past September. They do not litter in rural Austria. Italy next door litters. Lot's of floating plastic on Lake Como. Not a cigarette butt or gum on the sidewalk in Hintertux, Austria

 

[HB Chris]

Vienna Austria is another spotless city, they pay their sanitation workers well and it shows.

 

[dave v. in nc]

I have a few friends that admit to me that they don't recycle...anything. Everything goes into the garbage. Everything. Seriously!? That's embarrassing, or at least should be. Just Effing lazy. Makes me very sad. One planet, one chance for the kids, and their kids, etc...I love where we live..it's beautiful, and surprisingly clean, so I take it personally when others treat it like chit. I used to spend a lot of time inThailand for several years, and one of the good things there (many aren't..) is that many of the grocery stores have "plastic" bags made of corn-based whatever that is totally compostable. There is a little of that currently happening in the US, but mostly here, its still LCD...lowest common denominator, i.e. the cheapest crap still wins, no matter the long range effects. My rant for today. Pray for the Republic, we need it.

 

[Bmachine]

I have a few friends that admit to me that they don't recycle...anything. Everything goes into the garbage. Everything. Seriously!? That's embarrassing, or at least should be. Just Effing lazy. Makes me very sad. One planet, one chance for the kids, and their kids, etc...

Even here in California where everything appears to about recycling, many people where I work throw their garbage in the recycling bins. And I work mostly with people in their 20s and 30s! They should know WAYYY better! They will pay for their stupidity for much longer than I will. I'll often go into the kitchen and open the bins and separate recyclables from trash myself. It drives me nuts.
At least plastic bags are finally banned almost everywhere.

 

[teahead]

No wonder China doesn't want our recycling anymore . It's all garbage .

 

[Nicad]

In many jurisdictions in Canada, the separated recycling is now just getting mixed back with the garbage in landfills because China has new more restrictive rules about taking our recycling and doing something with it. How can shipping a plastic bag across the ocean be better than burying or burning it in a pollution controlled incinerator and reclaiming some energy?

 

[eriknetherlands]

Just a consideration; in the EU it is forbidden to export waste. Law is to treat it in your own country. So the solution to the problem is forced to be located in the country that is the originator of the problem.
Not sure if good or not, just another style of reasoning....

 

[Nicad]

https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/science/2018/03/22/great-pacific-garbage-patch-grows/446405002/
I can't say I blame the plastic ....but the Humans who dump it are a fail. You would think it is perhaps profitable for a fishing type ship to harvest it?

 

[dang]

In the county where I live they separate recycling at the waste facility so most everyone just throws all the cans and bottles, etc in the garbage. This method is probably more affective since it all gets looked at...