7-11 plastic bag update.

[Deepinthailand]

23 minutes ago, maximillian said:

 

Why answer troll posts ?

I agree why did you answer it????

[metisdead]

Inflammatory posts and replies have been removed.

 

I missed it last night, grammar police posts and replies have now been removed. 

[sikishrory]

Wheres the petition? on change.org yet?

[01322521959]

I always carry a plastic bag, the one I have at the moment is more than 6 months old and still usable. I have a backpack and 2 big white bags that I think are circa 2007 which can carry 3 500gms of kellogs cornflakes. Thais just love plasic bags. I have a constant fight to stop my girlfriend getting more of the buggers .. 

[robertthebruce]

5 minutes ago, 01322521959 said:

I always carry a plastic bag, the one I have at the moment is more than 6 months old and still usable. I have a backpack and 2 big white bags that I think are circa 2007 which can carry 3 500gms of kellogs cornflakes. Thais just love plasic bags. I have a constant fight to stop my girlfriend getting more of the buggers .. 

 

 

Kellogs Cornflakes ......have not had them for years, loved them with hot milk in a cold day....

[01322521959]

1 minute ago, robertthebruce said:

 

 

Kellogs Cornflakes ......have not had them for years, loved them with hot milk in a cold day....

I'll get you some next time I'm at Tescos ...:)

[robertthebruce]

11 minutes ago, 01322521959 said:

I'll get you some next time I'm at Tescos ...:)

 

 

 

Well done that man...you've go the Christmas Spirit....

 

if there is none on the shelves, I also like Frosties with Tony the Tiger

 

cheers

 

[lungnorm]

17 minutes ago, robertthebruce said:

 

 

Kellogs Cornflakes ......have not had them for years, loved them with hot milk in a cold day....

Mr Kellogg has a lot to answer for he is a cereal killer.

[georgemandm]

On 23/11/2016 at 7:54 AM, Deepinthailand said:

For goodness sake stop being so bloody holly your not a grammar expert, I could not give a monkeys arse if there are to many plastic bags in the world when children are dying every day of starvation, or from other easily curable diseases but no plastic bloody bags are far more important to you aren't they, so get off your lilly white charger and try and do some real good for a change

Nothing wrong with trying to stop the  plastic bag use , great idea, but you have no hop in thailand.

you look at the  damage it dose to the fish life and how  dirty it looks , bags all over the place.

yes  starvation is not good, but this is about plastic bags in thailand not about starvation in the world.

Is it not .

Pisss off plastic bags in thailand is a great idea.

i agree with him 1 million % . 

So you get off your Lilly white charger and try and help with stop plastic bag  use .

[cheapskatesam]

I'm surprised bio degradable bags have not been invented..

[jpinx]

13 minutes ago, cheapskatesam said:

I'm surprised bio degradable bags have not been invented..

BigC bags degrade in sunlight after a while.  :)

Going back to recycled paper bags would be a option, maybe.

[55Jay]

While it's nice 7-11 did respond, the email was a hand job....without the happy ending. 

 

Suggesting YOU, 1 person, a farang at that, start a petition with the Thai Gov (LOL) is them shifting the burden to you.  AKA - blowing you off.  Hell, the PM himself has twice, gone on a national anti-plastic bag crusade and was blown off, so you're not alone. 

[nisakiman]

On 23/11/2016 at 8:16 AM, sn1per said:

A leftie nazi, probably don't know if they are coming or going

 

In fact, the word Nazi is a contraction of the National Socialist German Worker's Party, so 'lefty nazi' is perhaps not so much of an oxymoron.

 

The plastic bags we get from the supermarkets here in Greece have a limited lifespan, regardless of whether or not they are exposed to sunlight. On a couple of occasions I've emptied out the bin bag in which we keep the carrier bags (we use them for rubbish) only to find that the bags at the bottom have disintegrated into tiny flakes and dust. Makes a hell of a mess. I'm not sure how long it takes, but I would guess a year or two.

[Deepinthailand]

2 hours ago, georgemandm said:

Nothing wrong with trying to stop the  plastic bag use , great idea, but you have no hop in thailand.

you look at the  damage it dose to the fish life and how  dirty it looks , bags all over the place.

yes  starvation is not good, but this is about plastic bags in thailand not about starvation in the world.

Is it not .

Pisss off plastic bags in thailand is a great idea.

i agree with him 1 million % . 

So you get off your Lilly white charger and try and help with stop plastic bag  use .

Go home and bore your relatives no wonder your countries in the state it's in with people like you

[georgemandm]

46 minutes ago, Deepinthailand said:

Go home and bore your relatives no wonder your countries in the state it's in with people like you

So their we go again go home and bore your relatives, that's all you blokes can say when you hear the truth.

my country is great and I love it .

i bet you have no hop of going home because you would be one who sells the lot and come thailand and gets on Tv all day .

what a bore life you have .

with 12 post a day in the last 6 months tells me more about you how unhappy you are in thailand.

[bluesofa]

On 23/11/2016 at 11:37 AM, xerostar said:

I thought they were going to introduce bio-degradable "plastic" bags ?

Made from some environmentally friendly material that breaks down quickly and is harmless to marine life.

I think that would help solve the problem.

That said, I think many people find the bags very handy for disposing of kitchen waste in neat packages 

I was just watching an Australian documentary (War On Waste  ABC) about plastic bag usage.

 

It was claimed on there that bio-degradable bags were a lot worse, as they break down into smaller pieces in the ocean, but don't degrade completely.

They have a lot worse effect on fish and other creatures in the sea, as they tend to ignore the complete plastic bags, but can tend to ingest the smaller pieces.

 

[Speedo1968]

On 11/22/2016 at 8:58 PM, akirasan said:

Well done.  It's a step in the right direction.  

Today at a 7-11 I got the strangest look when I said I'd put things in my backpack and a plastic bag wasn't needed.

Same for me.   I live near a small rural town.   There are three 7/11 stores and all of them now hold up a bag to ask the question.

[bluesofa]

15 minutes ago, Speedo1968 said:

Same for me.   I live near a small rural town.   There are three 7/11 stores and all of them now hold up a bag to ask the question.

That is good news. I wish that would happen everywhere.

 

I was the OP of the thread about 7 Eleven not responding to emails, which I assume triggered this thread.

I originally asked 7 Eleven why the branches I had been into didn't ask if customers wanted a bag, despite their website claim they were doing this. Perhaps my approach was too confrontational for a Thai to respond to.

 

I'm pleased Malt25 who started this thread managed to get a reply.

 

[nasa123]

Hi,

 

In Norway we pay about 10 Bath fore 1 plastic bag in every shop, I think we going down about 50 % off plastic bag in Norway.

 

Good ide in Thailand and the rest of the wold ?