The Fight against Plastic Bags
I hadn’t been in Lidl (a supermarket) before last weekend, and when we went to pay the buy there, we had to buy a plastic bag too. It was the first time that we had to pay a plastic bag because the supermarket that I use to go, I haven’t to pay the bag. Well, since this time I have informed about plastic bags and now I put here a little information about that.
The plastic bags arrived here 40 years ago, approximately. Only in Spain to make 92.000 tones and the families consume 15.330 millions in the year-350 for person-. And the alarm is only the 10% of plastic bags finish in the bins. They are very polluting for the environment, although we continue to use it, maybe because we aren’t aware the problems that plastic bags cause... but we would to think about that.
Every week, the Catalan consumers use 10 million plastic bags, used just to transport goods once, from shop to home, and in the end up in the rubbish bins in Catalonia. There are some people that re-used for domestic waste products but the vast majority are binned or thrown away in the countryside. This means that over 190.000 tons of unnecessary plastic waste is being produced each week and, of course, this increases in the summer.
This happens because the bags are free in the most of shops and supermarkets.
I hadn’t been in Lidl (a supermarket) before last weekend, and when we went to pay the buy there, we had to buy a plastic bag too. It was the first time that we had to pay a plastic bag because the supermarket that I use to go, I haven’t to pay the bag. Well, since this time I have informed about plastic bags and now I put here a little information about that.
The plastic bags arrived here 40 years ago, approximately. Only in Spain to make 92.000 tones and the families consume 15.330 millions in the year-350 for person-. And the alarm is only the 10% of plastic bags finish in the bins. They are very polluting for the environment, although we continue to use it, maybe because we aren’t aware the problems that plastic bags cause... but we would to think about that.
Every week, the Catalan consumers use 10 million plastic bags, used just to transport goods once, from shop to home, and in the end up in the rubbish bins in Catalonia. There are some people that re-used for domestic waste products but the vast majority are binned or thrown away in the countryside. This means that over 190.000 tons of unnecessary plastic waste is being produced each week and, of course, this increases in the summer.This happens because the bags are free in the most of shops and supermarkets.
For this reason, I think that like the Lidl supermarked does, to pay the bags to take the buy; it is a good solution to avoid a bit this problem. Others solutions can be to go to buy with wicker basket or to committed to re-used bags like material or paper.
The Government wants that the consumption of plastic bags falls a 50% until 2010, an idea that ecologists are very agree but the supermarkets and the plastic factory reject.
The Government wants that the consumption of plastic bags falls a 50% until 2010, an idea that ecologists are very agree but the supermarkets and the plastic factory reject.
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