5th June 2009
These days roll by every year (earth day just passed by).
We dressed in green at our office today and our office today removed non-veg as an option in the food court as a symbolic gesture to "go green". These are fine and are needed, but any practical inputs to make a tangible difference?
I was wondering, for starters, if we can take out plastic bags from our lives. No, this is not about using them and taking them properly to a recycling center, as is done in the west - it is about discontinuing its use altogether (unless they are 100% biodegradable).
Any tips?
Friday, June 05, 2009
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People use paper bags instead, but then we are cutting trees...the best alternative is to use thin cotton bags or bags made our of natural fibers (such as coconut fiber etc) . 30to 40 yrs ago, people were only using simple cotton or natural fiber bags. these bags might be right now more expensive than the polythene bags...but its only a demand and supply trend...I heard from my mom that only big shops used to have polythene bags some 30 yrs ago
I think its also a good business to manufacture the bags made out of natural fibers.
Some of these thin plastic bags are not even recyclable. They should be of a certain thickness else they just become compost and end up choking the soil. They are actually banned but ppl use them nevertheless.
The thick ones are fine if used responsibly and properly recycled, any reason why you want to rule out that option?
And yes, cloth bags rather than paper bags.
Even I wonder why biodegradable plastic has not caught up, the price factor maybe. But it looks promising.
In that case, just charge the customers at shopping places a little extra and use these bags.
I think it will be some time before India does recycling well. I think most of them are just dumped.
BTW, our company distributed notebooks to children for world environment day. Made of bagasse (sugarcane waste). I really like what they're doing. Feels very sincere!
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