3rd March 2008, 12:52 PM
Ah, plastic bags. I try to limit my collection of these B****** things, and appreciate trees decorated with them as much as the next punter. How is a reduction of their use going to affect the impending climate catastrophe? The only way I can imagine it helping is if all fossil fuels were immediately made into plastic bags which were then buried to stop them being burnt and releasing CO2.
Then again just leaving fossil fuels in the ground in the first place would achieve the same thing. Likely innit?
Reducing plastic bags is a litter issue NOT a climate change issue, but I suppose it serves the govenment, (among others) to tinker with meaningless policies while doing nothing to mitigate a massive problem.
I'll continue to reduce/reuse/recycle, but I'm not fooling myself about its likely effect.

Reducing plastic bags is a litter issue NOT a climate change issue, but I suppose it serves the govenment, (among others) to tinker with meaningless policies while doing nothing to mitigate a massive problem.
I'll continue to reduce/reuse/recycle, but I'm not fooling myself about its likely effect.
