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 “Mum, dont spoil the planet I will be living for your convenience”

There is harsh economics in recycling the plastic bags.  It cost much more to recycle a plastic bag than to produce a new one. Hence less than 1% of plastic bags are recycle.    

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http://www.poconorecord.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080506/MULTIMEDIA02/80505016

Ireland, Taiwan, South Africa, Australia, and Bangladesh have heavily taxed the totes or banned their use outright. Several other regions, including England and some U.S. cities, are considering similar actions. Why our country still not banned the platic bag ?

One of the great scholar and champion in resources productivity is Amory Lovins. He and his colleagues advocate that to stop the destruction of the planet, we need to exercise what is Factor of Four. We need to cut by half of our use of critical resources and at the same time,  double the use of the resources on the value obtained.  A book called Factor Four : Doubling Wealth, Halving Resources Use is a must read book.  The are examples of Factor Four Best Practises in the link  :

The author estimate that a total of several trillions dollars was wastes every years. The waste occurs because there has been no consistents efforts to use our earth resources efficiently. Our industry source labour productivity and not resource productivity. This waste makes everyone poorer, damage our environments and create unrecoverable problems for our childrens future.