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>> Trees were at least renewable.  Plastic bags didn't come
>> to save trees, they are merely cheaper.  Stay away from
>> the touchy warm fuzzy feelie granola types and stay with
>> the more scientifically knowledgeable ones.

In article <Jym.13Feb2008.47b31721@econet.org>,
Jym Dyer  <jym@econet.org> wrote:
	Ah Mr. Dyer, still with us on Usenet.
>=v= You're pointing fingers in the wrong direction.  Actually
>the touchy etc. granola types avoid plastic bags as well.  The
>notion that plastic has some environmental advantageous is and
>always was industry public relations greenwash.

Greenwash: true.  Agreed.  Naw the granola types are a mixed bag.
Some avoid and some like Jeff, didn't.

>=v= Consumer resistance has always been high and the industry
>put a *lot* of effort into overcoming it.  It took them until
>the 1990s to really succeed, after fooling people with sham
>recycling schemes and putting the chasing arrows "recyclable"
>symbol on all containers regardless of their recyclability.

That definitely is a factor in the US market.

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