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The Chinese will ban free plastic bags by June, but the Australian Government wants all of ours gone entirely by December of this year. Finito. Apparently there are some 5 billion of these bags floating around the place, getting into landfill, choking our wildlife, and turning up on our beaches when you least expect it.
Where do you get these plastic bags? I’d like to know, you certainly can’t get them in my neighbourhood. I haven’t even seen a plastic bag for at least six months. My shop only has paper bags, and the last time I asked there for a plastic bag, the Young Thing at the checkout rolled her eyes round like a nervous horse as if I had asked her for frangers.
The paper bags are fair enough, guaranteed not to stifle a penguin, but bloody impossible to carry groceries in. It’s just as well that I buy so few items to put into bags these days.
When I was a young nipper we lugged the groceries home in big wicker baskets that scoured your hip and cut through your arm to the bone. Then, thanks to the miracles of modern technology, we got plastic bags, which also cut through your arm to the bone, but left your hip mercifully unscathed.
Ou sont les sacs plastiqes d’antan?
Can you spare a dime for an old dame?
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by Kloggers, on April 7 2008 @ 8:20 am
I think your post is brilliant! I remember struggling with cloth and linen/canvas bags. They are slowly phasing the plastic ones out over here too. Shops are now carrying supplies of various cloth/long-life heavy duty plastic bags for shoppers to start purchasing to be ready for when they are phased out. They also have biodegradable bags made from cellulose - at the moment they are for placing composting in and also for pedal bin liners.
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by Cynthia Blue, on April 7 2008 @ 3:01 pm
They are all up here in the USA and floating down there. We have a TON, it’s just scary.
by Canny Granny, on April 7 2008 @ 5:05 pm
Kloggers, Biodegradable bags made from cellulose? Isn’t that what I’ve got? I keep exercising to get rid of it but if my cellulose can be turned into a bin liner I will gladly donate some.
And maybe the bags on our beaches really are floating down from USA as Cynthia says. Heavens above, so many other things are finding their way here like popular music, pants hanging past the hips, TV shows, problems with financial institutions, celebrity gossip, wars etc.
by buffy, on April 8 2008 @ 4:12 am
Can’t say our American friends don’t share!
We can still get plastic bags here in regional Victoria but only if you buy more than 5 items (otherwise you have to just carry them) I try to remember to take my ‘green’ bags into the supermarket when shopping but generally end up at the register…trolley filled to the top and suddenly think…shit the bags are in the boot!
They do at least hold cans and bottles better than those plastic bags that the bum falls out of in the middle of the car park!
by blueyes, on April 8 2008 @ 6:37 am
I was just gonna say was Cynthia said but she beat me to it lol What kills me is the baggers will put like 2 items in the bag and get a new one. I’m like throw some more stuff in there, it’s not going to break.
by Jenny, on April 10 2008 @ 10:28 pm
Tres amusant!
It must only be in your area that there are no plastic bags. Not in mine. Same city too. What about the plastic bags I see near you half way up trees marking the last flood. What? Flood. What is that?
by Canny Granny, on April 12 2008 @ 12:11 am
Ah yes blue eyes, I remember the days when the Baggers would actually put your items in the bag for you. And true, they would put 2 or sometimes 3 little things in one bag. That was a long time ago …
I remember when milk came in bottles too.
Jenny, if we are in the same city we must be shopping at different places. Not a plastic bag to be had in any of the shops I visit. As for the bags stuck up the trees in the creek, I do hope you aren’t seriously suggesting I clamber up an old gumtree to retrieve a bag when I want one?
by Ray, on April 12 2008 @ 10:00 am
Thanks for stopping in at my web site and taking the time to comment. I live in Texas and there are no shortage of plastic bags here. People are doing a lot more recycling but there are still a lot of plastic bags lying around.
Once I am done shopping I keep these around for trash can liners in my bathroom and desk buckets. I imagine that we will begin getting rid of them in the near future as well. I cannot say I will be happy to see plastic bags go.
by jan, on April 13 2008 @ 9:48 am
Some years back plastic bags were going to save the rain forests or something like that. It was the trendy, earth loving thing to save the paper bags.I was made to feel like I was destroying the planet by saying paper. Now plastic bags are the enemy.
I think the world is mad.
by Canny Granny, on April 13 2008 @ 9:52 am
That’s right Jan! I had forgotten we were encouraged to use the plastic instead of chopping down trees for paper bags.