7-11 and Plastic bags...What about the Turtles and Global Warming?

[redwood1]

Form the first day 7-11 opened in Thailand till 2020...Any purchase you made was automatically put into a plastic bag...

 

From 2020 to 2021 in 7-11........We absolutely can not give out plastic bag any more because we love Turtles and we are fighting Global Warming.....

 

From 2021 to 2022 in 7-11....We still love Turtles and we are still fighting Global Warming.......But if you beg and pay extra we might give you a plastic bag....

 

From 2022 to 2023 in 7-11.....We still love Turtles and we are still fighting Global Warming....But if you ask we will give you a plastic bag.....And heck about 50% of the time we will not charge you extra...

 

From 2023 to 2024 in 7-11......The whole issue of Turtles and Global Warming is up in the air.......But about 50% of the time we will give you a plastic bag without you asking..

 

From 2025 in 7-11.......We dont give a Rats-Azz about Turtles or Global Warming any more.... And we will automatically give you a plastic bag almost 100% of the time without you asking........Same as before..........lol 

 

 

 

[Moonlover]

And for good measure we will throw in this plastic straw that you don't really need to drink that (plastic) bottle of water, some plastic spoons to eat your yogurt with and this plastic cutlery to go with your ultra processed, god awful prepacked meal. (presented in plastic of course)

 

Turtles! What are turtles?

[impulse]

I carry my own bag(s) in my knapsack, and I politely decline the straw.

 

You can blame 7/11, but it's all about personal responsibility.  (And being a cheap bastard that hates to pay for something that I'll soon have to bin)

 

What do you expect them to do?  Alienate and/or shame their customer base?  That's for snooty overpriced coffee shops that will go unnamed. (But they share a name with a Mellville character)

 

[Kinnock]

The environment is so last year .... do try to keep up.

[Ralf001]

<deleted> the turtles.. gimme me baggies.

[KhunLA]

Worried about turtles, burn your plastic like we do.  Don't give to govt, and they won't end up in the sea.

 

GW ... 

[johng]

3 minutes ago, KhunLA said:

burn your plastic like we do.

 Why don't you turn it back to oil first then burn it in a gas guzzling  pickup truck 😋

[johng]

1 hour ago, redwood1 said:

Same as before..........lol

 

Same as it should have ever been..the bags had their advertising on it  could be made "biodegradable" and a large percent were used more than once.

"ja rup sarapow perm mai ka"    has been replaced with the rather cheeky

"sai toong mai ka"    sometimes I ask for a double bag 😋

[Cameroni]

Now on to MacDonalds and make them abolish the paper straws!

[brewsterbudgen]

Trump's President now.  We can forget the global warming hoax. 🐳

[johng]

3 minutes ago, brewsterbudgen said:

We can forget the global warming hoax

 

hoorah !!!!

[richard_smith237]

Covid-19 seemed to put the kybosh on the anti-plastic rhetoric...   Never have I seen so much single use plastic in use in my life... 

 

As far as plastic bags are concerned - its nothing more than a virtue-signalling an attack on the consumer....   everything (most things) is still packaged in plastic before it goes in our basket anyway... 

 

 

Now it seem - just stick a recyclable stamp on it and away we go.

 

Plastics are of course an issue, but we desperately still need them in specific areas... Where not essential is easy enough to get rid of them if 'authorities' really cared - its already been shown that the consumer will adapt. 

[johng]

12 minutes ago, Cameroni said:

Now on to MacDonalds and make them abolish the paper straws!

 

I have vague memories as a kid with paper straws  they hardly lasted till the end of the drink  obviously technology has leaped and bounded and they now do actually last till the end of a drink (mostly)..whereas a plastic straw lasts for many drinks and maybe a school project after that and then back to oil again if there is the will.

 

Of course  people should not be be throwing the things in the rivers and sea that is down to education.

[jacko45k]

I need the plastic bags to keep the old plastic bags in. 

[Guderian]

Turtles are so yesterday.... the bête célébrée du jour nowadays is clearly the Butterbear! lol