opalred Posted February 13, 2017 Share Posted February 13, 2017 i am shocked to see in my own bin how many plastic bags the wife and i have there every day if you go to a market or shop they will put a item in a plastic bag even if it is already in its own plastic container if you but a box of matches it goes in a plastic bag buy a drink it goes in a plastic bag where do all these bags end up on the road or burning how do you train people to stop when then the biggest money company's in world produce them and say no problem on this planet maybe on another planet have problem Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisinth Posted February 13, 2017 Share Posted February 13, 2017 4 minutes ago, opalred said: where do all these bags end up.......... Personally, after the weekly shopping adventure at either Central, Lotus or Big-C, they end up lining our wastepaper bins at home for the rest of the week. If I am shopping at the likes of 7/11, unless the purchase really needs one, I will refuse them; the staff normally understand this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phuket Man Posted February 13, 2017 Share Posted February 13, 2017 You can always say no. I don't want one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uptheos Posted February 13, 2017 Share Posted February 13, 2017 how do you train people to stop? Sounds like you should figure out a plan at home first and the let everyone else in on your secret. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fruitman Posted February 13, 2017 Share Posted February 13, 2017 Last weekend i bought a shirt in a departmentstore in Malaysia and it was packed in a paper bag.....easy peasy...and the best thing was everybody there speaks good english, what a relieve. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grollies Posted February 14, 2017 Share Posted February 14, 2017 My wife buys packets of plastic bags in which she puts eggs to sell. She bought another pack yesterday, guess what she carried them home in?..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
impulse Posted February 14, 2017 Share Posted February 14, 2017 I decline the plastic bags from 7/11 and Boots, but I use the ones from TESCO and BigC. Unlike back home, rarely do I ever buy plastic garbage bags. Don't need to. The ones I get for free are about the perfect size for a day's worth of kitchen scraps and the like. Any bigger and I'd probably forget to take them down to the apartment trash bin before they go off in the tropical heat of my apartment while I'm at work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary A Posted February 14, 2017 Share Posted February 14, 2017 The population needs to be educated. Maybe they can learn from Makro. Makro seems to do just fine not using them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
recom273 Posted February 14, 2017 Share Posted February 14, 2017 2 hours ago, impulse said: I decline the plastic bags from 7/11 and Boots, but I use the ones from TESCO and BigC. Unlike back home, rarely do I ever buy plastic garbage bags. Don't need to. The ones I get for free are about the perfect size for a day's worth of kitchen scraps and the like. Any bigger and I'd probably forget to take them down to the apartment trash bin before they go off in the tropical heat of my apartment while I'm at work. Yes, it's sad but true. I usually have a backpack with me because my bike doesn't have a basket but I'm tired of having arguments with security guards who think I'm going to use the bag to steal with. You end up getting your shopping in bags and carrying it to the back check, but if you fill your backpack and return the plastic bags they throw them away because Thai people won't use a dirty bag. At least I can tell them not to double bag for the journey to the bag check. So I just take them an recycle until an alternative is found. It will take a whole lot of education in various different ways before things will change. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roger Lee Posted February 14, 2017 Share Posted February 14, 2017 In the states, at least the last time I was there the cashiers at Walmart would ask "paper or plastic?". Gotta love the bunny and tree hugging environmentalists I guess. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tagalong Posted February 14, 2017 Share Posted February 14, 2017 Go back to hessian bags like before the plastic.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tifino Posted February 14, 2017 Share Posted February 14, 2017 4 minutes ago, tagalong said: Go back to hessian bags like before the plastic.... finally! a legitimate reason to bring back hemp? 555 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Laycock Posted February 14, 2017 Share Posted February 14, 2017 There was a short news article today/this morning on CNN about this problem. Someone with brains has come up with the solution, the product is 100% biodegradable, comes from the natural waste of a food source. Sorry I can't for the life of me think of the name of the company or the name of the waste produce. At least it's a step in the right direction. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TerrylSky Posted February 14, 2017 Share Posted February 14, 2017 Golly gee... what would they do without plastic bags? Well, first, the plastic chemical company giant would not make as many billions of bahts; yes, they would have to lay off a few people. Alternatively, local seamstresses would gain income by making resusable, earth friendly, cotton bags. The additional consequence would be that there would be more scenic and enjoyable litter free environments. Finally, the sea life would be healthier not getting caught up in all that crap. But it's like burning grass and trash in the villages; the idea of conserving and being Earth friendly is a strange, foreign, unorthodox idea that is alien to the culture... even making biodegradable plastic bags is too weird for most people. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elgenon Posted February 14, 2017 Share Posted February 14, 2017 California cities have banned single use plastic bags. Soon will be state wide. Can be done. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SiSePuede419 Posted February 14, 2017 Share Posted February 14, 2017 Banana leafs. ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thongkorn Posted February 14, 2017 Share Posted February 14, 2017 2 hours ago, tifino said: finally! a legitimate reason to bring back hemp? 555 And also difficult to carry your soup home in , But soup in a basket sounds good though if not messy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deepinthailand Posted February 14, 2017 Share Posted February 14, 2017 19 hours ago, fruitman said: Last weekend i bought a shirt in a departwmentstore in Malaysia and it was packed in a paper bag.....easy peasy...and the best thing was everybody there speaks good english, what a relieve. I bought a shirt in KK clothes market is was placed in paper bag. And funnily enough every speaks Thai what a relief. But there again I am in Thailand and I did take time to learn the language as I'm loving here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fruitman Posted February 14, 2017 Share Posted February 14, 2017 8 minutes ago, Deepinthailand said: I bought a shirt in KK clothes market is was placed in paper bag. And funnily enough every speaks Thai what a relief. But there again I am in Thailand and I did take time to learn the language as I'm loving here. You are in KK, that's not BKK city where loads of tourists come shopping and the staff can't speak english to them...ALL malaysians can speak good english, also i haven't spotted one poking their nose or standing in the walkway. If you can't speak thai while living in KK it would be very hard to live. Last year or so i read that Thailand wanted to be the hub for disposable bags made from sugarcane, what happened to that big plan? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deepinthailand Posted February 14, 2017 Share Posted February 14, 2017 1 minute ago, fruitman said: You are in KK, that's not BKK city where loads of tourists come shopping and the staff can't speak english to them...ALL malaysians can speak good english, also i haven't spotted one poking their nose or standing in the walkway. If you can't speak thai while living in KK it would be very hard to live. Last year or so i read that Thailand wanted to be the hub for disposable bags made from sugarcane, what happened to that big plan? No idea what your on about. My point is i learned the laungage so i dont have to hunt around for an english speaker oh and by the way many staff in bkk speak English beacuse they could be bothered to learn it. Over to those in KK us it nearly imposible to live here not speaking thai.!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fruitman Posted February 14, 2017 Share Posted February 14, 2017 3 minutes ago, Deepinthailand said: No idea what your on about. My point is i learned the laungage so i dont have to hunt around for an english speaker oh and by the way many staff in bkk speak English beacuse they could be bothered to learn it. Over to those in KK us it nearly imposible to live here not speaking thai.!! I've been shopping in ALL the malls in BKK and the staff in departmentstores can't speak english AT ALL. My point is that also tourists from Malaysia, China, Singapore, Philipines, Europe, USA, Russia can't speak to the staff, oh well who cares....stupid tourists only come to spend money, who cares. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Black arab Posted February 14, 2017 Share Posted February 14, 2017 Go to a market in esaan and you will get plastic bags all day long used to be paper apparently, should revert back to them me thinks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Suradit69 Posted February 14, 2017 Share Posted February 14, 2017 On 2/13/2017 at 6:28 PM, opalred said: if you but a box of matches it goes in a plastic bag buy a drink it goes in a plastic bag If it's something that doesn't require a plastic bag or if you're already carrying one bag into which it can easily fit, say "no thanks" or "" mai aow khrap ." I do it all the time. No one has ever wrestled me to the floor insisting I take another plastic bag. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lungnorm Posted February 15, 2017 Share Posted February 15, 2017 22 hours ago, elgenon said: California cities have banned single use plastic bags. Soon will be state wide. Can be done. Yes but at what an inconvenience. Its not the plastic bags that are the problem its the idiots that leave them all over the place. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kannot Posted February 15, 2017 Share Posted February 15, 2017 dont worry theres enough on the floor to last them another few years if they run out Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ResandePohm Posted February 16, 2017 Share Posted February 16, 2017 On 2/14/2017 at 4:42 PM, Paul Laycock said: There was a short news article today/this morning on CNN about this problem. Someone with brains has come up with the solution, the product is 100% biodegradable, comes from the natural waste of a food source. Sorry I can't for the life of me think of the name of the company or the name of the waste produce. At least it's a step in the right direction. Tesco in the UK has been using bio-degradable plastic bags for years.Why don't they use them here? Shows they don't have any real commitment to the environmentl Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phuketjock Posted February 16, 2017 Share Posted February 16, 2017 On 2/13/2017 at 10:47 PM, fruitman said: Last weekend i bought a shirt in a departmentstore in Malaysia and it was packed in a paper bag.....easy peasy...and the best thing was everybody there speaks good english, what a relieve. Perhaps you should do some research on the cost to the enviroment of manufacturing paper bags as opposed to plastic bags. I think you may be a little surprised. One of them causes an enormously detrimental effect compared to the other. http://www.allaboutbags.ca/papervplastic.html http://www.interplas.com/packaging-earth-friendly-recyclable-plastic-bags Just a couple of links, there are many more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OJAS Posted February 17, 2017 Share Posted February 17, 2017 I just save all those we get from Big C and Tesco Lotus and don't need ourselves for rubbish disposal purposes, and take them over to my sister in Paris each year to use for disposing of her rubbish, given that plastic bags are like gold dust in France these days! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fookhaht Posted February 17, 2017 Share Posted February 17, 2017 1 hour ago, OJAS said: I just save all those we get from Big C and Tesco Lotus and don't need ourselves for rubbish disposal purposes, and take them over to my sister in Paris each year to use for disposing of her rubbish, given that plastic bags are like gold dust in France these days! I think you've just uncovered a new export business opportunity. (I can't see why French customs officials wouldn't love receiving crates and shipping containers full of plastic bags from Thailand!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markcm19 Posted February 17, 2017 Share Posted February 17, 2017 I bought a couple nice reusable bags, take it around in my car without inconvenience and always fill it, and still have tons of bags for the bins. Feels good making a few thousand less plastic bin bags occupy the earth each year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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