"RoseGarden" - - - - - - - from - nscave

So one of our local grocery stores is about to ban plastic grocery bags to help the environment. Nice media grabbing, your PR department must have thought at least twenty minutes to figure that one out.

Now they can sell cloth bags and make a few bucks while pretending to protect the environment.

I'll agree to a certain point that the plastic bags may not be great for our environment, but at least they are reusable and not nearly as harmful as other plastics in your store.

As this blog has pointed out several times before, a greater problem is the plastic packaging used to make products look good and attract attention.

You and other retailers should take a look around your store. Tiny toys in a large plastic enclosure, DVDs with plastic packaging three times their physical size, nearly everything enclosed in plastic.

Most of this plastic is so you can hang it on a display hook or to make it look good.

When the consumer gets it home and finally gets the item open after much frustration, where does this plastic go? It makes an enormous amount of garbage, because you can't compress it and the edges are extremely sharp - it will poke holes in the strongest garbage bag.

So get rid of this ploy to make more money for yourself. If you are serious about the environment, take a serious look at the plastic that is really causing the problems.

What's next? Ban plastic garbage bags? That should make curbside real interesting on garbage days.

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