Stop using plastic bags for the sake of the future of the human race? Pass
Stop using plastic bags to save penny's? All in
Are you kidding? We couldn't even get these idiots to not try to kill themselves on the Covid virus. They willing went out and got themselves on ventilators so they could eat at Applebee's.
But you see covid was a conspiracy by the government to inject nanobots into you, while also been a virus produced by 5G towers. It's all perfectly logical.
And while we are at it, ban nonbiodegradable filtered cigarettes.
Smoke yo shit whole or dont at all.
Why not just put a birth year on it? No one born after 2010 can buy cigarettes. Ever.
Give it 100 years or so, and we'll be smoke-free.
Because no one ever buys illegal drugs off the black market now.......
If you follow that logic to its natural conclusion, you should never make anything illegal because it doesn't work.
Which is obviously going super great for America and its Gun problem.
There's a difference in what's made illegal and peoples demand. There's little demand for guns in the UK since they were made largely illegal for example which is why one gun was linked to 30 odd cases when found as they're not flooding the black market. There's a big demand for drugs and if they're made illegal, cigarettes.
New Zealand is doing exactly this. Other comment is right though, black market will come prepared
When I was smoking I was removing filters. I don't understand why they are in cigarettes, they remove all the good stuff.
If only companies will avoid committing illegal crimes to avoid paying fines.
I mean, sure, but in a post about users paying for plastic bags, i don't see the relevance.
Now they charge extra for thicker worse for environment bags that most use anyway
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Environmental campaigners have called on the government to learn from its own successes after official figures showed the use of single-use supermarket plastic bags had fallen 98% since retailers in England began charging for them in 2015.
Annual distribution of plastic carrier bags by seven leading grocery chains plummeted from 7.6bn in 2014 to 133m last year, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) said on Monday.
Rebecca Pow, the minister for environmental quality and resilience, said the policy had “helped to stop billions of single-use carrier bags littering our neighbourhoods or heading to landfill”.
“Both the deposit return scheme and new rules to make plastic producers contribute to clean-up costs, which formed the key planks of the government’s waste strategy, have been delayed until 2025.
“There’s obvious context here, which is that they reannounced the success of the single-use plastic bag ban on the same day that they unveiled a hugely destructive plans for 100 new oil and gas licences.”
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You're not charged where I live, but reusable bags are so much better. They do not take up space, can be used for so many other things, and they're prettier if you want.
They don't take up space?
Not really. I just keep 3 or so flat on the bed of my trunk. And a few more in my hall closet if I know I have a big shopping day.
You plebs are STILL using plastic bags?! What the fuck, we got rid of those 10 years ago! Figure it out, England.
That's not a very uplifting comment. But to clarify, we don't have the old disposable ones here anymore. You can still buy a 20p harder wearing plastic bag at the checkout with the intention that it's reused, handy when you've popped in unexpectedly but most people are taking their own now.
Where are you from?
Meanwhile aircraft fly overhead burning jet fuel with no emissions controls. Chinese factory's have no or little emissions controls. Gulf war oil well fires.
and? God forbid people do something good
yes and no. the good part here is it does something (small) for the environment.
the bad part is that it puts the onus on the average person, whereas a majority of pollution comes from the industry
Hot take: the onus should be on everyone - both industry and people. Single use plastics is a real, very serious issue. It may be relatively small regarding global warming, but it's not small at all regarding other serious problems we're making for our planet.
Additionally if no one is buying products from heavy polluters then it doesn't make sense to burn the fuels. It either requires people to take action and change their buying habits or for governments to tax carbon to both make the environmentally friendly options economically viable to most people and to get companies to reduce emissions so they can stay competitive.
Air travel is more difficult to get environmentally friendly at this time due to the limited options as electric consumer planes are still in the testing and development stage and would struggle with international flights however train travel in Europe can be a solid option over plane travel but from a US perspective air travel is still generally the best way to go as trains are just not the best in the US and a car trip will take longer then both planes and trains and emit more fossil fuels per trip per person.
This is not just an emissions thing. This saves the animals and fish who end up consuming the plastic.
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