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[RANDLOVER]

I'm not sure all the ramifications have been thought thru. The oceans are configured to deal with faecal matter, whereas our human constitutions are far less tolerant of exposure to bags that have been utilised for used nappies, been used the back of the car by dogs for bedding, and exposed to all sorts in the back of utes. I'd be happier if all the profits from the re-usable bags were donated to cleaning the oceans, Landcare, etc.

[Homestar]

So fishermen/person's aren't just taking a garbage bag or similar plastic packaging to put their bait in. Then the wonderfully plastic free stream flows into an ocean full of broken plastic fishing lines and lost nets. I'd like someone to explain how a so called non-reusable shopping bag, used as a bin liner or even just discarded in a bin, in say suburban Adelaide, ends up it a water way, surely the council garbage collection/tip is to blame then?

If the world wasn't so full of irresposible ****tards then there would be no need for the ban - it's thoughtless ******* who don't give a **** who are mostly to blame theat just dump their rubbish where they like because they are too lazy and dumb to do the right thing. I doubt too many escape the lamdfills these days, as Bee Utey said, they aren't just open tips any more and tightly controlled.

Remember - the average person is quite dumb - and half the population is dumber than the average. 😉

[Homestar]

I'd be happier if all the profits from the re-usable bags were donated to cleaning the oceans, Landcare, etc.

I don't think Coles and Woolies would share your view on this... 😁

[DAMINK]

If the world wasn't so full of irresposible ****tards then there would be no need for the ban - it's thoughtless ******* who don't give a **** who are mostly to blame theat just dump their rubbish where they like because they are too lazy and dumb to do the right thing. I doubt too many escape the lamdfills these days, as Bee Utey said, they aren't just open tips any more and tightly controlled.

Remember - the average person is quite dumb - and half the population is dumber than the average. 😉

I see loads of rubbish dumped in plantations around here all the time!! Like new **** every few days! Trailer loads at a time of the stuff.
Im almost positive its cleaning crews for rental properties, where there employed to clean out joints. Rather than go to the tip they dump it in plantations.
Filthy ******. I see that more often than i see average joes dropping plastic bags!

[V8Ian]

Checking out at the supermarket, the young cashier suggested to the much older woman that she should bring her own grocery bags because plastic bags weren't good for the environment.

The woman apologized and explained, "We didn't have this 'green thing' back in my earlier days."

The young cashier responded, "That's our problem today - your generation did not care enough to save our environment for future generations."

She was right our generation didn't have the "green thing" in its day.

Back then, we returned milk bottles, lemonade bottles and beer bottles to the shop. The shop sent them back to the plant to be washed and sterilized and refilled, so it could use the same bottles over and over. So they really were recycled.

But we didn't have the "green thing" back in our day.

Grocery shops bagged our groceries in brown paper bags, that we re-used for numerous things, most memorable besides household bags for rubbish, was the use of brown paper bags as book covers for our schoolbooks. This was to ensure that public property (the books provided for our use by the school), was not defaced by our scribbling. Then we were able to personalize our books on the brown paper bags.

But too bad we didn't do the "green thing" back then.

We walked up stairs, because we didn't have a lift in every supermarket, shop and office building. We walked to the local shop and didn't climb into a 300 horsepower machine every time we had to go half a mile.

But she was right. We didn't have the "green thing" in our day.

Back then, we washed the baby's Terry Toweling nappies because we didn't have the throwaway kind. We dried clothes on a line, not in an energy-gobbling machine burning up 3 kilowatts …….. wind and solar power really did dry our clothes back in our early days. Kids had hand-me-down clothes from their brothers or sisters, not always brand-new clothing.

But that young lady is right; we didn't have the "green thing" back in our day.

Back then, we had one radio or TV in the house - not a TV in every room and the TV had a small screen the size of a big handkerchief (remember them?), not a screen the size of Scotland In the kitchen. We blended and stirred by hand because we didn't have electric machines to do everything for us. When we packaged a fragile item to send in the mail, we used wadded up old newspapers to cushion it, not Styrofoam or plastic bubble wrap. Back then, we didn't fire up an engine and burn petrol just to cut the lawn. We pushed the mower that ran on human power. We exercised by working so we didn't need to go to a health club to run on treadmills that operate on electricity.

But she's right; we didn't have the "green thing" back then.

We drank from a tap or fountain when we were thirsty instead of using a cup or a plastic bottle every time we had a drink of water. We refilled writing pens with ink instead of buying a new pen, and we replaced the razor blades in a razor instead of throwing away the whole razor just because the blade got dull.

But we didn't have the "green thing" back then.

Back then, people took the bus and kids rode their bikes to school or walked instead of turning their Mums into a 24-hour taxi service in the family's $70,000 People Carrier which cost the same as a whole house did before the "green thing." We had one electrical outlet in a room, not an entire bank of sockets to power a dozen appliances and we didn't need a computerized gadget to receive a signal beamed from satellites 23,000 miles out in space in order to find the nearest pub!

But isn't it sad that the current generation laments how wasteful we old folks were just because we didn't have the "green thing" back then?

Please forward this on to another selfish old person who needs a lesson in conservation from a smart arse young person...

We don't like being old in the first place, so it doesn't take much to **** us off...especially when the "advice" is being offered by a tattooed, green-haired smartarse who can't work out the change without the cash register telling them how much it is!
And by the way, we used safety pins to secure babies' nappies, not sticking them in our ears to hold them on!

[Chops]

I've seen that little story a few times now,and every time I read it, I see the truth in all. (Just wish I had the 300 HP but )

[V8Ian]

I've seen that little story a few times now,and every time I read it, I see the truth in all. (Just wish I had the 300 HP but )

I'll take you for a ride in my Td5 when you finally get here.

[Chops]

I'll take you for a ride in my Td5 when you finally get here.

hahahha,,, I'll give you a drag,,, and just to make it fair, I'll leave the 3T of caravan connected

[Mick_Marsh]

hahahha,,, I'll give you a drag,,, and just to make it fair, I'll leave the 3T of caravan connected

What was that? You're a drag queen when you're in your blouse?

[Chops]

What was that? You're a drag queen when you're in your blouse?

We can Drag together Mick