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by blythburgh » Mon Jul 19 2021 10:24am
thanks, ordered and will pass on to charity shop as have enough canvas bags already
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by pabenny » Mon Jul 19 2021 12:23pm
Greenwashing by Andrex.
Cotton bags are widely recognised to have a significantly greater environmental impact than plastic. So much so that they have to be used 131, 149 or 170 times to be better (depends on your source. One says 7,100 times)
And it's all very well ordering one to give to charity shop, but will they want it? Would you buy one?
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by blythburgh » Tue Jul 20 2021 9:04am
Plastic bags all too often end up in the oceans and eventually inside our bodies. My bags have been used many hundreds of times. And, yes, they do get washed. I also use two very large plastic bags when doing a main shop. Both of them are made from recycled plastic bottles.
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by pabenny » Wed Jul 21 2021 7:27am
blythburgh wrote: ↑Tue Jul 20 2021 9:04am
Plastic bags all too often end up in the oceans...
Many do, yes. But how many of those are from the UK? My used plastic bags either go into recycling or general waste (->landfill) and yours probably the same. For all we have been guilted by Blue Planet, ocean plastics are from places without functioning waste collection/disposal systems.
It can be really hard to make good environmental choices and well-intentioned people can make bad choices. Plastic bags may not be great - but other choices *may* be worse. Or just differently bad.
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by blythburgh » Wed Jul 21 2021 9:09am
Our black bin stuff goes in to an incinerator at the far south of the county. Norfolk's black bin stuff goes to one in Kent (I am assuming it still does) But a lot of plastic in landfill can end up flying in the air thanks to gulls looking for easy food. Now here they have to resort to the sea and the fields for their food
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