Posted on 03/01/2008 7:38:27 PM PST by Sub-Driver
State to ban plastic bags by 2009
March 02, 2008 01:53pm Article from: AAP
FREE single-use plastic bags will be banned in South Australia by the end of the year, regardless of whether the Federal Government moves on the issue, Premier Mike Rann said today.
"We started the anti-plastic bag fight and we're pushing ahead regardless of whether a nationally consistent approach is agreed to in the meantime," Mr Rann said.
Federal Environment Minister Peter Garrett said in January he would pursue the issue nationally by the end of this year, either by imposing a levy on bags or banning them completely.
Environment ministers from around the nation will meet in Melbourne in April to discuss a national approach.
The SA Government today said legislation was being drafted to ban the bags from January 1, 2009, and would be introduced to State Parliament next month.
"The time has come to lead by example and I am urging all states to follow this important step in ridding our environment of these bags that contribute to greenhouse gases, clog up landfill, litter our streets and streams as well as kill sea life," Mr Rann said.
"A ban in our state alone could see almost 400 million less plastic bags entering the SA waste and litter streams every year.
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They’ll get my plastic bags when they pry them from my cold dead fingers.
Doesn't everything worth having and doing?
OK, I give up. How exactly do they contribute to green house gases?
I can agree with the landfil theory, but what the heck does green house gases have to do with it?
The gas bags in the legislature contribute far more.
They probably mean the manufacturing of them. The civilized world has gone mad.
I’m guessing only if you burn them...
“OK, I give up. How exactly do they contribute to green house gases?
I can agree with the landfil theory, but what the heck does green house gases have to do with it?”
It’s how much energy goes into the design, manufacture and shipping of these bags that they are talking about. Personally I hate those stupid little plastic bags and I will be happy when they are gone. I shopped in a grocery store where you bought these green plastic tubs that fit into special carts.You brought them in with you, filled them to shop, then took them home. It worked out great and there weren’t any bags to deal with. Also, you weighed your own produce and got a scanner sticker- so you didn’t need those produce bags either.
Oh, that’s probably it. But then, EVERYTHING that is made of plastic should be banned, by that logic.
Trader Joe’s around here still uses only paper, which I much prefer over those dumb plastic bags that don’t hold much before they rip. Killing trees vs. filling landfills with plastic...guess you can’t win, huh?
San Francisco made plastic bags mandatory. Just sayin’...
They could stop making the darn things tomorrow and I can't imagine why I would care.
I do find it confusing though that the same enviro-wackos that insisted we save the trees and quit using paper bags are now the most upset about the plastic ones.
Which also reminds me that the global warming nutcases were the same ones telling us back in the 70's that we were going to freeze to death in 25 years.
I hate plastic bags and I never put my produce in one of those bags. I don't understand why the checkers always look at me like I did something wrong ... at least they don't have to look through the bag and try to figure out which picture it matches on the dummy sheet.
LOL, good one
What do you put you seafood in when you buy fish, etc at the fish market? That is going to be a big problem here as many people eat seafood and we have a lot of local seafood sellers.
What do you put you seafood in when you buy fish, etc at the fish market? That is going to be a big problem here as many people eat seafood and we have a lot of local seafood sellers.
“...but what the heck does green house gases have to do with it?”
Plastic is made from Petroleum. It’s all of the same cloth; anything these Enviro Gnatzies want to ban goes back to Fossil Fuels and their insane hatred for Big Oil.
And their endless NEED to meddle and to tell the rest of us how to live.
The other day I noticed at the Wal-Mart I work at they took out the Pepsi can machine. Coke had already taken their can machines and replaced them with bottle machines. We still have the ones in the back. Also the sam’s choice can machines in the front. I don’t know for sure if Pepsi is taking it out permanetly or not. Coke took their can machines out a several months ago. I find it ironic, especially with Wal-Mart on their green kick and the idiots with complaining about plastic water bottles. OY VEY!!!
How much petroleum would be saved by eliminating these bags?
Would it be measurable? Just a query by an uninformed observer...
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