H.D. wrote:
> "jg" <jg@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> Green Lantern wrote:
>>> "H.D." <herpem@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>>> "jg" <jg@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>>> news:hmJVj.216$IK1.187@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>>>> H.D. wrote:
>>>>>> <petzl@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
>>>>>>
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>>>>>> On May 11, 8:53 pm, Sir John Howard <sirjohnhow...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
wrote:
>>>>>>> When do KRudd, Swann and the rest of the labour stooges plan to do
>>>>>>> something constructive and positive for this country?
>>>>>> When and if they can ban
>>>>>> plastic shopping bags - I suppose
>>>>>>
>>>>>> So you think that this is easy?
>>>>>> I fill up my trolley with Groceries, get to the check out and put
them
>>>>>> on the belt. The girl scans them and puts them in bags. No bags?
>>>>>> Where does she put the Groceries? They need another boy to put them
>>>>>> back into the trolley. One more wage, up go the prices of
groceries,
>>>>>> up goes inflation.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>> You have suddenly become unable to shovel it all back into the
trolley
>>>>> you got it out of yourself, because you are too fkn stupid to get a
>>>>> couple of reusable bags? Wouldn't take any longer than bagging it.
>>>> If you have a trolley full of groceries, you are still putting them
on
>>>> the belt by thre time the girl has filled 20 bags.
>>>> You probably never went shopping for a family and have no idea. You
>>>> would be the one complaining when it takes 2 hours for me to get
through
>>>> the check out.
>>>>
>>>> Why should I supply shopping bags? Should I also bring Jars for them
to
>>>> fill them up with jam?
>>>>
>>> I agree.
>>>
>>> You shouldn't supply them and Garrett deserved to get trounced on this
>>> issue.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> Any reason, apart from vindictiveness and/or stupidity?
>
> Garrett went onto the bandwagon of world wide stupidity on that issue.
It is
> a bit like second hand smoke in pitt street among all the car fumes.
> To be realistic, when you do your weekly shopping, look at all the
plastic
> you take home. The plastic in the plastic bags is insignificant. Then
you
> need plastic bags as bin liners, in cars for the garbage, etc. etc. They
can
> be recycled just like milk bottles and drink bottles.I use over a
thousand
> of them just to pack one ****pping box to prevent things from breaking.Of
> course I could use styrene pellets but they are a bit more difficult to
> recycle.
>
>
>
>
>
I agree they are almost inconsequential to the amount of pollution we
cause and probably embarrassing if they turn out to be the only or
biggest "achievement" by Garrett, but there is no real necessity for
them and dumping them is one (very) small move in the right direction.
The fuss over them is only matched in pettiness, by the fuss against them.
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