The all-purpose heavy duty Climate Chaos thread (sprinkled with hope).

Stores could at least switch to paper...

Spiritual_Chaos said:

Do you pay for the bags in Canada? 

In Sweden at Supermarkets they cost... googling... 0,28 CAD (2 SEK)

Maybe the stores could up that to 3 or even 4 SEK and give the money to Climate Change/Ocean related causes.

I don't think they want to get rid of them here - the biggest margin they have is on the plastic bags. It's a money machine.

The biggest change is that stores like H&M and such (non supermarket stores) has started to charge for them and ask if you need one, before they were free.

In my municipal area, there was a ban on single use plastic bags from December 2017 until just recently, when the provincial court struck down the ban with the argument that the municipal government didn't have the authority to impose it. However, everyone had gotten used to not having plastic bags, and it doesn't seem like there is any push to put them back into use. 

oftenreading said:

Spiritual_Chaos said:

Do you pay for the bags in Canada? 

In Sweden at Supermarkets they cost... googling... 0,28 CAD (2 SEK)

Maybe the stores could up that to 3 or even 4 SEK and give the money to Climate Change/Ocean related causes.

I don't think they want to get rid of them here - the biggest margin they have is on the plastic bags. It's a money machine.

The biggest change is that stores like H&M and such (non supermarket stores) has started to charge for them and ask if you need one, before they were free.

In my municipal area, there was a ban on single use plastic bags from December 2017 until just recently, when the provincial court struck down the ban with the argument that the municipal government didn't have the authority to impose it. However, everyone had gotten used to not having plastic bags, and it doesn't seem like there is any push to put them back into use. 

Is it single use though, when you use it for trash later on. Haha. 

But okey. But did they cost in the supermarket before the single plastic ban?`

Spiritual_Chaos said:

oftenreading said:

Spiritual_Chaos said:

Do you pay for the bags in Canada? 

In Sweden at Supermarkets they cost... googling... 0,28 CAD (2 SEK)

Maybe the stores could up that to 3 or even 4 SEK and give the money to Climate Change/Ocean related causes.

I don't think they want to get rid of them here - the biggest margin they have is on the plastic bags. It's a money machine.

The biggest change is that stores like H&M and such (non supermarket stores) has started to charge for them and ask if you need one, before they were free.

In my municipal area, there was a ban on single use plastic bags from December 2017 until just recently, when the provincial court struck down the ban with the argument that the municipal government didn't have the authority to impose it. However, everyone had gotten used to not having plastic bags, and it doesn't seem like there is any push to put them back into use. 

Is it single use though, when you use it for trash later on. Haha. 

But okey. But did they cost in the supermarket before the single plastic ban?`

I think so, though I can't be sure. I live in an area with a ridiculous 13 municipalities containing fewer than 500,000 people total, so it can be tricky to remember where all the different municipal boundaries are and who does/did what. 

PJ_Soul said:

Meltdown99 said:

That bag promo had the opposite results and people were getting the bags as a novelty.

I think it had the exact intended result: it got people talking about the issue - enough for it to get on the news, where they highlighted the intended message. It was a successful campaign.

Whatever...

cincybearcat said:

Clintons continue to destroy the environment even after leaving office...

https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/22/politics/chelsea-clinton-birth-of-third-child-jasper/index.html

Overpopulation is a crime against all humanity!!

Seriously though, it actually bothers me when someone has more than 1 kid per parent. 

Kids shouldnt grow up without a sibling. 

Can we decide to stop it at two (2)?

Spiritual_Chaos said:

cincybearcat said:

Clintons continue to destroy the environment even after leaving office...

https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/22/politics/chelsea-clinton-birth-of-third-child-jasper/index.html

Overpopulation is a crime against all humanity!!

Seriously though, it actually bothers me when someone has more than 1 kid per parent. 

Kids shouldnt grow up without a sibling. 

Can we decide to stop it at two (2)?

Why shouldn’t they? 

Spiritual_Chaos said:

oftenreading said:

Spiritual_Chaos said:

cincybearcat said:

Clintons continue to destroy the environment even after leaving office...

https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/22/politics/chelsea-clinton-birth-of-third-child-jasper/index.html

Overpopulation is a crime against all humanity!!

Seriously though, it actually bothers me when someone has more than 1 kid per parent. 

Kids shouldnt grow up without a sibling. 

Can we decide to stop it at two (2)?

Why shouldn’t they? 

They turn into serial killers at an alarming rate. 

 I wonder if my daughter will head to Sweden for her rampage?

brianlux said:

cincybearcat said:

Clintons continue to destroy the environment even after leaving office...

https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/22/politics/chelsea-clinton-birth-of-third-child-jasper/index.html

Overpopulation is a crime against all humanity!!

Seriously though, it actually bothers me when someone has more than 1 kid per parent. 

I TOTALLY agree.  I hear people talk about how "green" they are.  I'm one of the "greenest" people I know in my circle simply by the fact that I didn't reproduce.

I agree too. Having a child - even just one - is literally the worst environmental impact a person can have on the planet. Worse than driving, worse than flying, worse than throwing away all your recyclables, worse than drinking from plastic straws, lol. I'm personally kinda proud to say that I have a very small environmental impact compared to most people. I don't have children and I live car-free, so I have the two worst-impact behaviours crossed off my list. I also only fly once in every hundred blue moons, although that isn't due to a sense of environmental responsibility at all, like the other two are. I simply can't usually afford to fly, lol. If I could, I'd help pollute the skies up a lot more.