Plastic Bags

[mcgillianaire]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/1974750.stm

The article is more than two years old but is an immediate follow-up to something I posted a couple days ago and contains an explanation to the primary reason the Bangladeshi government banned the use of plastic bags altogether!

"In March, Bangladesh slapped an outright ban on all polythene bags after they were found to have been the main culprit during the 1988 and 1998 floods that submerged two-thirds of the country. The problem was that discarded bags were choking the drainage system."

Comments

[aldehyde.livejournal.com]

mmhm, right on.

[3neonangels.livejournal.com]

it's funny you should mention plastic bags, cos when i was in morocco there were plastic bags EVERYWHERE. i'm talking strewn across the atlas, out in the desert, in the medina, everywhere you looked where discarded plastic bags. i think this bag banning thing is a good idea.

[mcgillianaire.livejournal.com]

hehe, i know exactly what you're talkin bout! we had a similar situation in oman. in fact, even when you went out into the interior where nobody lived on weekend excursions, u'd know if the place had seen civilization by the existence of plastic bags roaming around... :P