No need to use plastic bags
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Updated: June 25, 2009 4:13 PM
Editor:
Re: Going green worth the extra effort, June 19 editorial.
In your recent editorial discussing plastic bags use, you wrote, “To change the behaviour of the masses... the average person needs to be given a clear path to follow.”
I would like to offer a clear path on the green choice to ban plastic bags.
Any ban would have to logically come with a requirement to make kitchen worm composters mandatory for every kitchen. Once the gooey and mucky stuff is disposed of in the worm composters – or down the loo – there is really no need to use plastic to line garbage pails.
As for dog owners, there are pooper scoopers on the market to address this need.
Also please be clear, nuclear energy – or biomass incinerators – are not considered green, except by certain manufacturers and people who’ve been duped into believing them.
Green energy does not leave behind toxic effluents, filters, or require massive amounts of earth’s resources to work effectively.
R. Lawrence, White Rock
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