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| 151 | Carys Jones | Please support the tax on disposable bags. These items are clogging our landfills, and garbage contained within takes longer to rot than garbage disposed of in paper bags. This is an issue that can not be ignore! |
| 152 | Jenny T.A. Nguyen | After spending the summer in Europe, I'm ashamed of Vancouver! How dare we look at ourselves so haughtily and pat ourselves on the back for supposedly being green when we allow our supermarkets to continue handing out plastic bags by the handful?! IN Europe, EVERYONE had reusable colourful bags with green slogans on them a.k.a Agir aujoud'hui pour vivre mieux demain or Et la nature vous dit merci! You bought it once for 30 centimmes and reused it and when it broke, the supermarket would give you a new one for free. The only minus is that these bags were plastic, when I left mid-August, there weren't yet very many cloth bags. If you forgot your bags, you could purchase flimsier ones for 15 centimmes, and these bags were BIO-DEGRADABLE, so you could use them as garbage bags. So the solution for Vancouverites?
1. Demand that our supermarkets sell REUSABLE, Organic cotton/cloth bags, and encourage their use by giving new ones to customers who have worn their current ones out.
2. For people unwilling to use cloth bags or to bring them with them while shopping, enforce a hefty fee for buying BIO-DEGRADABLE plastic bags. |
| 153 | Anonymous | |
| 154 | Maya Wade | |
| 155 | Kara Bowen | |
| 156 | Anna Holden | |
| 157 | Anna Zaleska | Youth have the solutions!
www.agentsofchange.ca |
| 158 | Leeanne Kavanagh | |
| 159 | Anonymous | |
| 160 | Andrea Sandau | |
| 161 | myna johnstone | Other places charge 25cents |
| 162 | Rahcel Forbes | |
| 163 | Anonymous | Grocer retailers such as the Great canadian superstore has elimiated the use of plastic bags in store, giving customers no othe roption but to buy resusable bags, which are now sold in store for a reasonable price. Why can't all other grocer retailers do this? This simple act will reduce plastic bag waste significantly. For our family has switched to reusable bags and bring them every time we go shopping now. Its easy to switch and makes us feel much better about the pile up of plastic bags under our sink that usually end up in the landfill. |
| 164 | Anonymous | make that 25 cents per bag. It's more of a deterrent. Ireland got rid of its plastic bags littering the landscape that way. It's a small step toward realising what we are doing to our world. |
| 165 | jeremy williams | compostable, biodegradable, cornstarch bags are a viable solution! (MEC using only these) |
| 166 | C. Brauer | Did you know there is a new plastic island 1/2 way between San Fran and Hawaii that is 2x the size of Texas? About time we banned plastic bags! |
| 167 | Catherine Morris | I'd like to see our "green" city reduce drastically the number of plastic bags we send to the landfills. Please help us to be an example to the rest of the world and to raise awareness about this environmental issue. |
| 168 | Justine Clarke | |
| 169 | Helen Spiegelman | Plastic bags are like throw-away beer cans were in the 1960s: the public is sick of seeing them on the roadsides and waterways. There's a groundswell of opposition to plastic bags all over the world: see our blog at www.zerowastevancouver.blogspot.com. There will be many ways that governments at all levels will address public concern: bans, taxes, etc. It is not clear that municipalities in Canada have the authority to impose taxes. However, municipalities do have the authority to ban plastic bags from the garbage system. If consumers have no place to get rid of the plastic, that might deter them from accepting it! The recommendation before Vancouver city council was for staff to do a report. That will give us an opportunity to have input into how we will tackle this problem as a community. |
| 170 | Bridget Trousdell | I am strongly in favour of a complete phase-out of the supply of plastic bags to consumers. |
| 171 | Jason | |
| 172 | Pamela Hinshaw | |
| 173 | Melissa Drury | |
| 174 | Melissa Turner | |
| 175 | Harneet Lally | |
| 176 | Carmela Mendoza | |
| 177 | Grant Lawrence | I would love to chat with someone about this effort, I think it is great.
Have you checked out the bans in Radipleaf Manitoba and San Fran?
Cheers,
Grant 250-766-2698 |
| 178 | Anonymous | |
| 179 | Kegan Doyle | |
| 180 | Anonymous | great idea! |
| 181 | Amanda Junkala | |
| 182 | Anonymous | |
| 183 | Anonymous | We use the Plastic Bags to use as Garbage bags.
If we did not use them we would have to buy "Glad Plastic Garbage bags"
Are they practical alternatives are there for people who live in condos etc.
I can't use a paper bag for garbage as they just get wet.
Are there any other more environmentally friendly and practical alternatives to replace the plastic garbage bags and plastic glad etc. garbage bags?
I would love to see a story on this. It might help more then simply saying Plastic is bad.
Show us and teach us how to get around not using plastic bags. |
| 184 | Anonymous | We use the Plastic Bags to use as Garbage bags.
If we did not use them we would have to buy "Glad Plastic Garbage bags"
Why does CTV, Global or CBC not do an artical on this.
Are they practical alternatives are there for people who live in condos etc.
I can't use a paper bag for garbage as they just get wet.
Are there any other more environmentally friendly and practical alternatives to replace the plastic garbage bags and plastic glad etc. garbage bags?
I would love to see a story on this. It might help more then simply saying Plastic is bad.
Show us and teach us how to get around not using plastic bags. |
| 185 | Candace Woods | Ban plastic bags in vancouver altogether! |
| 186 | CheyAnne Bickerton | |