Friday October 30, 2009, 9:53 pm
Not all plastic is made from oil by products. Some are made from extracts from plants such as corn, but that also presents a real problem because crops that are grown to make this kind of plastic reduce the amount of cropland available to grow food and there is already a world food shortage. The best solution for solving this problem is the legalization of hemp/cannabis and I don't mean the kind you smoke. Tough, durable and reusable cloth bags can be made from this versatile plant. Cropland currently dedicated to cotton, or at least a portion of it, could be easily converted to hemp production. Hemp is also an excellent alternative to corn for bio-fuels so much of the land used for growing bio-fuel corn can also be converted to growing hemp and the remaining acreage can be turned back into food production without any lose to the bio-fuel industry. You save trees, increase food production, and you don't fill landfills and the oceans with plastic that takes a thousand years to decay.

Saturday October 31, 2009, 12:39 pm
GREAT IDEA

Sunday November 1, 2009, 1:21 am
This idea is very good. Even today hemp is used in many part of the world to pack groceries for local sales and export. Plastic become a threat to human life in the form of smoke, pollusion, drainage blockage threat to drainage and storm water system, no chance to recycle except burn it which ultimately lead to smoke pollusion. Plastic should be used exclusively for the larger alternative to Iron and steel wherever possible but not as a medium for carry bags, and shopping bags. Alternatly, all the waste should be exported to country where there is a dumping ground exclusively for the filling the large portion of land submerged and not in vegetation or human life. Local laws should implement such things and community as a whole welcome it and follow " NO PLACTIC BAGS'

Sunday November 1, 2009, 2:39 am
We should be hessien bags, or hemp bags... or perhasp shade net bags to use as they are strong and durable.. we have to buy our plastic bags from the shops so this is a deterent.. remember to bring ones own bags or pay up

Sunday November 1, 2009, 5:35 am
I started out using the carry home recycled bags and I was about the only one in my town for awhile. From cashiers fussing about them, they say they are harder to fill, to people staring at me, I just kept taking my bags and did not listen to their gripes... I did say they were environmentally friendly, and sooner or later they would be taking the place of all of those plastic bags that don't hold anything, and are a great harm to the environment. One woman working at Wally World said well we just order a billion or so of those plastic bags, I wanted to tell her off right then. But, I kept me mouth shut. Months later now I see many people using the reusable bags in the stores. Finally the public is catching on. They hold more, they are strong, they don't break, and besides they are environmentally friendly. My hopes are that they do start taxing for them.