Plastic bags were not outlawed, but carrying them became socially unacceptable — on a par with wearing a fur coat or not cleaning up after one’s dog.
Maybe not about the fur coats - but possibly accurate about the dog doo (though perhaps not in the way they originally intended).Slight exaggeration there by the NY Times!
"...... there is no social stigma attached to paying for and using plastic bags"
Certainly, stigma would be overstating it. But there is that phenomenon that people now will - if they have to buy a bag - buy the strong (more expensive) bag because they can pretend it will be re-used - even though there are already twenty of the damn things at home. There is definitely some mild social pressure not to use the old flimsy bags anymore.
Superquinn Market, Ireland’s largest grocery chain
I totally disagree. I have certainly neither heard about or come across such social pressure in the past."...... there is no social stigma attached to paying for and using plastic bags"
Certainly, stigma would be overstating it. But there is that phenomenon that people now will - if they have to buy a bag - buy the strong (more expensive) bag because they can pretend it will be re-used - even though there are already twenty of the damn things at home. There is definitely some mild social pressure not to use the old flimsy bags anymore.
Certainly, stigma would be overstating it. But there is that phenomenon that people now will - if they have to buy a bag - buy the strong (more expensive) bag because they can pretend it will be re-used - even though there are already twenty of the damn things at home. There is definitely some mild social pressure not to use the old flimsy bags anymore.
Maybe you could distract them from your embarrassing bags by talking about headage or set-aside payments or something?Maybe this is partly because of being in a small town where you are very likely to meet a few people you know at the supermarket. Or maybe I am unduly sensitive.
Furthermore, the environment minister told shopkeepers that if they changed from plastic to paper, he would tax those bags, too.
This article is a load of codswallop. Apart from the factual howlers already cited, this one takes the biscuit...
The article fails to recognise that plastic bags are still plentiful and prevalent for fruit & veg purchases, as well as for meat & deli goods. it also failed to mention that the UK government decided against introducing a plastic bag tax of its own, because a study there reckoned that the Irish levy was NOT environmentally friendly. Apparently, there has been an explosion in the volume of heavy duty binliners being bought and used in this country since the levy came in. Instead of packaging our refuse into flimsy used shopping bags, we now use heavy duty polythene bags for this purpose.
In all fairness, the levy has overall been a success in at least some ways. The amount of plastic bags littering our hedgerows and watercourses is noticeably less since the levy came in.
Yeah - this is a terrible problem around Dublin (city centre and environs) these days. Household waste, fridges/TVs, furniture, clothes etc.....only to be replaced in instances where people dump rubbish instead of paying bin charges unfortunately
That's all the boggers who live here treating the place like homeYeah - this is a terrible problem around Dublin (city centre and environs) these days. Household waste, fridges/TVs, furniture, clothes etc.
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