{"id":15,"date":"2008-02-28T12:48:55","date_gmt":"2008-02-28T12:48:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/neolics.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/28\/plastic-bags\/"},"modified":"2008-02-28T12:48:55","modified_gmt":"2008-02-28T12:48:55","slug":"plastic-bags","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/neolics.com\/blog\/?p=15","title":{"rendered":"Plastic Bags"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the Daily Mail launches it&#8217;s &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/pages\/live\/articles\/news\/news.html?in_article_id=521529&amp;in_page_id=1770&amp;ct=5&amp;in_poll_id=20988\" title=\"Banish the Bags\" target=\"_blank\">Banish the Bags<\/a>&#8221; campaign, I can&#8217;t help but feel they are going about it the wrong way.<\/p>\n<p>The environmental problems caused by the plastic pest have been known for some time &#8211; long before Peter Jones or Theo Paphitis mentioned their hate of them on Dragon&#8217;s Den.<\/p>\n<p>I am all in favour of reducing the number of plastic bags in the wild, but I think supermarkets etc should be promoting other bags more effectively. They should replace <strong>all<\/strong> their conventional bags with ones that are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>permanent (designed for long-term use), such as the cotton ones already being promoted OR<\/li>\n<li>biodegradable &#8211; e.g. paper or biodegradable polythene film (<a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/uk\/4758419.stm\" title=\"Tesco introduces biodegradable bags\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/uk\/4758419.stm)<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The fact is, bags are extremely useful and can be re-used in and around the home many times. If all &#8216;plastic&#8217; bags in the home (bin liners, freezer bags etc) were biodegradable, there would be no need to punish people with a &#8216;bag tax&#8217;. It would be better for the environment and people could still carry their shopping with relative ease.<\/p>\n<p>Simply banning all plastic bags is <u>not<\/u> the best solution, nor is charging people for conventional bags&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the Daily Mail launches it&#8217;s &#8220;Banish the Bags&#8221; campaign, I can&#8217;t help but feel they are going about it the wrong way. The environmental problems caused by the plastic pest have been known for some time &#8211; long before Peter Jones or Theo Paphitis mentioned their hate of them on Dragon&#8217;s Den. I am [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[69,66,67,68],"class_list":["post-15","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc","tag-bag","tag-daily","tag-mail","tag-plastic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/neolics.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/neolics.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/neolics.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/neolics.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/neolics.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/neolics.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/neolics.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/neolics.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/neolics.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}