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Old 21-07-2009, 04:16 PM
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Re: Fewer plastic bags used

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Originally Posted by Wild-Woman View Post
I would like to see more of a campaign marketed by the media showing just what a plastic bag can do to wildlife. Joe Public still needs to be made more aware of the damage they do. Or even something compulsory written on a plastic bag like the 'can suffocate' saying that the bag will take hundreds of years to rot and just how many years landfill we have left (which I think in Kent has been estimated as 11!!).
I don't think that will make a blind bit of difference to a lot of people. If they can't even be bothered to take their rubbish home after a picnic what hope have you got in alerting them to any environmental dangers.
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