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Politics : The Environmentalist Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (34468)	7/4/2011 1:27:53 PM
From: Don Hurst	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 36921

Maurice, just a quick response to this part of your note... >>" PS: I have never understood the antipathy to supermarket plastic bags which seem to me highly useful to carry groceries and also for multiple subsequent purposes, with very low cost, low weight, low space taken up, and then when chucked in the rubbish, they are totally non-toxic and just sit in the ground in the midden. If they stay there for 100,000 years, that's no more a problem than a coal seam staying in the ground for 100 million years. Do you know why people get so worked up about supermarket bags which must be about the least of problem it's possible to get? Tyre wear is a much bigger problem - bits of rubberized oily gunk fouling the air and coating surroundings. "<< I'm busy grilling hot dogs (it's the Fourth, but by gosh it is bloody hot outside today and no rain...weird weather it seems to me based on my lifetime experiences here) I got from the local supermarket and I am also trying to figure out what to do with plastic bag they came in with the rest of the groceries, Oh I know what I will do with it..., I have to walk the dog later today thru the park but where will I find the coal seam to take care of the bag and "contents"...Oh fortunately there is a ditch, roadway, empty field nearby or a stream that empties into a lake and eventually fouls up the sea, But not too worry, it will get to that coal seam along with the rest of the "oily gunk" somehow, probably thru the coal/oil company sponsored/funded recycle program. Happy Fourth!