plastic bags

Plastic bags are a common target for environmentalists. They can take up to 1000 years to decompose while contributing to your carbon footprint, and often end up floating around the air and landing in nearby lakes and ponds. But a high school student from Canada has discovered a way to break down plastic bags in mere months.

Teenagers get a lot of bad

One of the leading UK supermarket chains Sainsbury'sis launching milk sold in a recyclable plastic bag pouch in thirty five of its stores.

The chain expects to have the bagged milk available in as many as 500 stores within the next year.

People every day see bags lying along the road and wonder "how did it get there", and "why would someone toss such a useful thing". Leftoverbags.com is here as the voice of those bags, letting you know that bags don't like to be leftover. No siree, bags would just assume not be taken at all if you are going to use them once and forget about them, toss them aside as trash. But they aren't trash, they are versatile reusable things!

Nope, the world will go on, no matter how much CO2 we emit, no matter how many plastic bags we throw away, no matter how many rainforests we destroy, no matter how many nuclear bombs we “test”. The planet won’t alter course, won’t implode or fall out of the sky, won’t, in short, bat an eyelash.

But...

High street stores give away 13 billion plastic bags each year in the UK. They are used, on average, for 20 minutes, and then thrown away. Find out what supermarkets are doing to cut down on bag usage and what you can do to help...

Plastic bags only got a handle on the mainstream about 25 years ago but in that time they have become ubiquitous, not only here in Canada but around the globe.

A quick summary and analysis of the budget from the environmental perspective. Sadly, nothing dramatic although plastic bags was a near thing!

A debate on whether we should pay for plastic bags at the store.I think its a postive move

Nice post about how Whole Foods is taking action to clean up the environment. Great information about what else is going on with recycling, and we can do individually.

Environmentalist Bob Lilienfeld believes it's better not to create waste than to figure out what to do with it. He says choosing certain products over others is one way people can help reduce excess waste, like buying foam egg cartons that weigh less than an ounce instead of those pulp paper egg cartons, which weigh close to two ounces.

Whole Foods, which, for those of you who don't have one, is the world's largest eco-healthy food store, has just promised to completely stop using plastic bags. And while I like that they're, y'know, considering these things, it turns out that their logic may be faulty.

A quick look at Southeastern grocery stores and their bagging policies. Do they have paper or plastic? Do they sell reusable bags? Do they have a refund policy if you bring your own? Find out here.

A watered down version of a plastic bag ban, but a step towards the right direction for Los Angeles. Stores will be asked to participate in plastic bag reduction.

Another hot tip from Seamus, the eco friendly dog.