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by **Sojourner** » Sun Dec 28, 2008 3:52 pm

Calling through the drive through at KFC at Hampstead Gardens today I was handed my order in a large brown paper bag. It occured to me that this must be as a result of the goverments law comming into place in the new year to ban plastic bags.

I cant see what this actually achieves when the plastic bags are replaced by brown paper bags, to pulp paper takes a massive amount of water in pulping mills as well as bleach, anti mould inhibitors in the process and a myriad of other chemical nasties, I was under the impression that plastic bags replaced the paper bages in the supermarkets in the 1970's in order to cut down on this problem, so in 2009 here are back again to what we moved from back then! I think that if Plastic Bags are simply replaced by Paper Bags, havent we actually then made the environmental problem even worse?

by **rod_rooster** » Sun Dec 28, 2008 4:24 pm

If nothing else the paper bags are a much better packaging for food like KFC as it keeps the chips crisp. In plastic bags the food sweats making it all soggy so paper is the much better option.

by **MatteeG** » Sun Dec 28, 2008 4:40 pm

RED_rooster wrote:If nothing else the paper bags are a much better packaging for food like KFC as it keeps the chips crisp. In plastic bags the food sweats making it all soggy so paper is the much better option.

LOL- the competition speaks!

by **spell_check** » Sun Dec 28, 2008 4:48 pm

I've thought for a long time about things not being environmentally friendly:

-Motorised transport is obvious as the first port of call, all those carbon emissions [-X

-Using grey water for gardens (oh hang on a minute, doesn't that still use water?)
-Eating meat - cows give off methane gas emissions
-And of course now the plastic/paper bag usage - lets use cardboard boxes - on second thoughts you need to use up carbons to produce them
Come to think of it, just about anything produced yields all of that nasty stuff.

So, I've come to the conclusion that the greenies will only be fully satisfied if we all live Amish style.

by **brod** » Mon Dec 29, 2008 12:23 am

Transition period from Jan 1 for the plastic bags

by **rod_rooster** » Mon Dec 29, 2008 10:15 am

MatteeG wrote:
RED_rooster wrote:If nothing else the paper bags are a much better packaging for food like KFC as it keeps the chips crisp. In plastic bags the food sweats making it all soggy so paper is the much better option.

LOL- the competition speaks!