Not just Ventnor!
January 15, 2008 at 3:40 pm | In Environment | 3 CommentsTags: Australia, China bans plastic bags, environent, Isle of Wight, Peter Garrett, Plastic Carrier Bag Free, Rwanda and Eritrea, Tibet, Ventbag, Ventnor
It is not only Ventnor and loads of other UK towns and cities that are going Plastic Carrier Bag Free. From June the Chinese government has
forbidden shops from offering free plastic shopping bags and banned the very thin ones entirely in a bid to cut down on the 3 billion bags that are used every day. Read more about it at Treehugger
Australia’s Environment Minister Peter Garrett, the ex Midnight Oil singer, is out to do something about the estimated 4 billion plastic carrier bags that are given away by retailers every year. He wants see the country plastic carrier bag free by the end of the year, it has not been decided if there will be a charge for bags or an outright ban. Read more about it at Treehugger
Tibet have announced a complete ban on plastic carrier bags.
Rwanda and Eritrea already have an outright ban on plastic bags.
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Most of the stores in Canada especially grocery stores have their own plastic reusable bags with their logo on. Now we are seing it with banks, libraries and a few clothes shops. Most are reusable plastic though…
Until recently we even had a rebate for every reusable plastic bag we brought at the grocery for use. They stopped giving out rebate a month ago and claimed giving out x amount to environmental associations…???
There is discussion to start charging for plastic bags in grocery. We need to see when that will happen.
Comment by Maryse — September 24, 2008 #
Hi Maryse
Do they still have the brown paper sacks as an option in the grocery stores? Not that they are any better in environmental terms but at least they do compost down.
You will have to start your own Morsbag pod and try and convert the whole of Canada to fabric bags.
Angie
Comment by Angie — September 24, 2008 #
Hello Angie,
Yes brown paper sacks are still available at the grocery store if you ask.
Fabric bags are making their way….but the preferred option is reusable plastic bag.
Maryse
Comment by Maryse — October 14, 2008 #