Plastic Bag Free Town

A_fiend_for_life

mervyn11 wrote: »

Nice idea but what are people going to put their dog poo in ?????
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Use other forms of wrapping for example old bread bags / cereal bags.

A_fiend_for_life

Even better might be an old trowel and throw it down the drain.
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Ben84

arkonite_babe wrote: »

Similar story here

Interesting article, and it links to an article from the Washington Post that makes some fair comments about paper being less green than many people think.

However, there is one big error in the Washington Post article. Plastic is not a by-product of oil refining. While the plastic industry would like us to believe they're using up the left overs and that we would have a problem finding uses for them otherwise, this isn't true. Despite being repeated a lot, I've never found any basis in the claim.

Polythene, one of the most common plastics and the one used to make pretty much all plastic bags is made from ethene, a gas that burns as readily and cleanly as natural gas, and contains more potential energy per Kg. We could easily find better uses for it than turning it in to single use plastics that fill up landfills. Far from helpfully using up leftovers, the plastic industry is consuming high quality fuel materials.

A_fiend_for_life

Interesting graphic though I think they should be comparing like for like and how often a particular bag can be reused.

In the recycling section the plastic and paper pie charts are switched round.

'Bleach' is that hydrogen peroxide or chlorine based bleaches?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/graphic/2007/10/03/GR2007100301385.html?referrer=emaillink

Interesting that 'by product' statement have they included the rest of the energy from the lifecycle?