06-10-2012, 11:16 PM
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Here in Sth. Australia plastic supermarket bags have been banned for about 3 yrs. The supermarkets will sell you a bag ..anything from a plastic 'biodegradable' one for 15cents to a cloth one costing a couple of dollars. I always carry my own.
07-10-2012, 02:32 AM
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Originally Posted by mari41
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Here in Sth. Australia plastic supermarket bags have been banned for about 3 yrs. The supermarkets will sell you a bag ..anything from a plastic 'biodegradable' one for 15cents to a cloth one costing a couple of dollars. I always carry my own.
07-10-2012, 03:57 AM
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Never mind the big plastic bag con, what about the international plastic bottle scam?Coca-Cola, Pepsi and other beverage distributors decided in the late 70's that recycling glass bottles was too expensive for the multinational corporations and lobbied governments to make plastic bottle distribution the status quo. Despite the environmental disaster that plastic bottles are responsible for, the corporate pressure on governments is such that the practice will never be reversed.
07-10-2012, 06:41 AM
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It's true Bruce that the drink bottle and can recycling is a great success in Sth Aus. We get 10c for every one. They had to put a limit on the number that could be redeemed at one go because people were coming over the State boeder with ute loads. It is worth doing as when our grandkids go on holiday we usually have around $100 to give them for pocket money and we don't even drink beer. I can't fathom out why wine and spirit bottles are not included.
07-10-2012, 11:53 AM
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Originally Posted by Robert Junior
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Has anyone else noticed the ADS adjacent to this thread, for plastic packaging materials....how do they do that?
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