Halla wrote:
> On Thu, 24 Apr 2008 19:55:32 +0100, Snowleopard
>
gmail.lair.com> blethered:
>>> On Wed, 23 Apr 2008 00:21:23 +0100, Halla
>>
drunkenbastards.spam.com> said
>>>>> On Tue, 22 Apr 2008 06:53:47 -0500, "Viva"
privacy.net>
>>> blethered:
>>>>>>> Starting today - Earth Day - the US supermarket Whole Foods will
>>>> no longer offer plastic bags. Also, I read that some counties in
>>>> CA have a bill before their lawmakers to ban plastic shopping
>>>> bags, period.
>>>
>>> And the supermarkets will be relieved, really, that they can charge
>>> people for bags. Then Tescoids will offer free 'green' bags and off
>>> we go again. Why did they move away from the paper ones anyway?
>>> Apart from the tearing problem, of course.
>>
>> Probably just the tearing problem... If you irritate your customers
>> they may not shop with you. Although there was for a while a distinct
>> air of "recycling paper isn't really that environmentally friendly".
>
> Well, is it though?
>
> That Stephen Fry thing about the Gutenberg press was on BBC2 earlier
> and the OH was amazed to see how paper was made - he'd never thought
> about the process before. It reminded me that making paper is not
> necessarily very light on the water supply, although I wonder how they
> make printer paper etc.
A lot more benignly these days. There was a time not so long ago when the
Baltic was being seriously polluted by paper manufacture in Finland and
Sweden.
I should go up the wooden hills - I'm thinking of my breakie - what shall it
be? Kipper - a cert - an oeuflette complement avec Champions, toms and do we
have any sparrow sticks that I can slice into the brew? :)
