Carbon credits and you

How very true Michael.
Just another damn tax!!!.
Vince

OOHH Yeah!! Those green bags and those plain calico bags are cotton.. Cotton has its own environmental problems.. It must be the worst crop for water wasting and noxious chemicals... Also some of those so called enviro green bags are , yes fine woven polypropylene, similar to the polyethlene bags only much heavier, yes they may last longer but how much longer... what a take!! Michael

Plastic Bags are fully recyclable. Why ban them?

Paul because people don't

Richard, People recycle them for lots of uses and for garbage liners also but the quality isn't really good enough to keep recycling them. Most end up with holes in them within a short time so they are useless. Once they are useless, there is no provision to ultimately recycle them, meaning shredding them and turning them into something else. Your recycle bin doesn't want them.. Its not the consumers fault that there is no provision for this.. One the whole, I think most people are very good recyclers in many areas.

P.S. I think one of the big department store recycles them but doesn't help everyone.

"meaning shredding them and turning them into something else."
Sounds like recycling to me. My local coles still accepts them

On reflection I probably posted a comment in here which was ,at best, ambiguous but will almost definitely hijack this post.
Having just finished working in the waste Industry for 4 years, I can tell you that plastic bags definitely ARE recyclable, not as bin liners but as pure, clean (or almost clean)plastiic. I can put my hand up and say that I use them for bin liners, Know it's not right but sure is convenient. I regurlarly use the green bags at coles and would encourage everyone to recycle there plastic bags.

I will throw this rough stat out there and I will have nothing more to say about plastic bags.

Of 12% of Sydneys pastic bags thrown into household bins, 80% end up being recycled.

Paul

PS
Don't bother with the line... All of Sydney gives you the bleep s!

sorry, shoul;d have been "their" plastic bags. Mrs Prentice would be happy!

Michael ( Moss Vale NSW) ....... How many times is a dedicated kitchen bin liner bag used?
At least a plastic shopping bag used as a bin liner is being used for the second time!

sorry the Collins GEM Australian English Dictionary says

Recycle vt. reprocess a manufactured substance for use again:

not reuse.

We all reuse the bag as bags. but we still through the bag in the bin...

Regards

Richard

Where do we throw bin liner bags then??

I would say that when thay are full you throw them in the bin.

Begs the question..you break it you ... ..??? silverback

I heard on the news last night, that Australian meat is sold in parts of the US at around 30% of the prices charged to the consumer here in Oz.

And the longer we ignore it, the bigger the bill that will have to be paid.

of course the "right" would say that is typical of the Guardian....not convenient....silverback