lottie
02-28-2008, 12:01 AM
This is disgusting...I'm definitely cutting down onthe number of plastic bags I use.
From the UK's Daily Mail newspaper.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=519832&in_page_id=1770
hbh2oguard
02-28-2008, 02:28 AM
Well I haven't been using them for the last few years, and my reason was because of the waste and the fact they are filling the landfills. Now I have another reason to stick with cloth.
Delta_v18
03-04-2008, 08:02 AM
Always remember the four R's in Waste Management: Refuse, Reduce, Re-use, Recycle.
Plastic (especially HDPE and LDPE), rubber and metallic-coated balloons are also a threat to marine turtles. They mistakenly see these as sea jellies.
Our participation in the international coastal clean-up September 2007, here in my town revealed 30 sackloads of rubbish, mostly plastic and rubber.