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Re: Local celebs pledge to give up plastic bags

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Lisbeth wrote: Wed Jul 04, 2018 8:36 am They are more expensive O**

The only way to teach people to bring their own shopping bag is to charge R5/10 for any kind of plastic.
Supermarkets do not want to stop plastic bags . It cost them almost nothing , and they sell it for 45 cents each .
Furthermore , the plastic bag advertises the Supermarket's brand , which means that they also get free advertising , or rather , their own customers pay through their noses for advertising for them . And the bags are spread all over the country-side , so therefore their brand is spread out even more , at no cost to them 0=
You would say that they could get the same mileage out of paper . Not so , paper bags tear , burn , deteriorate very quickly , especially when wet 0*\


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If there is no willingness nor from the shops nor from the population, then there isn't much hope. The only way is to make a law and I do not think that the government is ready for such a big step O**


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Interestingly, SANParks forbid plastic bags at shops on their/our property...50 years now? \O


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Excellent! ^Q^ ^Q^ ( In a nature reserve anything else would be criminal ;-))


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A lot of people posted this pic on FB yesterday applauding Spar for their initiative...turns out it was for one day only!! 0*\

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I wonder how much more expensive it is and what the local content of plastic vs paper is?


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If those paper bags are like ours, they are very strong and can be used many times and it is much easier to pack the items that you have bought \O

If people use them again and again it is all right, but if not you will have to cut too many trees O**

(The bags do not look very resistent though)


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https://www.news24.com/video/southafric ... a-20180709


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Not a bad idea! lol


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Young lions playing with a black plastic bag in a South African wildlife reserve

By CLAIRE DUFFIN AND JAMIE PYATT FOR THE DAILY MAIL

PUBLISHED: 17:23 BST, 13 July 2018 | UPDATED: 17:37 BST, 13 July 2018

In yet more heartbreaking images, a group of lions on the African Savannah play with a discarded plastic bag.

The young animals tussle and fight over the black bag, oblivious to the danger it poses.

The pictures were taken at the Sabi Sand Wildtuin wildlife reserve in South Africa.

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It is thought the bag may have blown into the reserve from one of the nearby lodges or brought in by a hyena which had been scavenging bins.

It comes after the Daily Mail yesterday published distressing images of polar bear cubs playing with a black plastic sheet in the snow in Svalbard Islands halfway between Norway and the North Pole - 7,500 miles (12,000 km) away from South Africa.

It shows the global scale of the problem of plastic waste and and how no part of the world, it seems, is free from the scourge.

Tackling it is now the target of the Mail's trail-blazing Turn the Tide on Plastic campaign.


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