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Subject: [Leica] IMG: Why Plastic Bags Should Be Banned
From: jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj)
Date: Tue, 3 May 2016 10:11:32 +0530
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Charging is supposedly compulsory in India as well, though most 
establishments do not do so.
Cheers
Jayanand

Sent from my iPad

> On 03-May-2016, at 10:07, Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu> wrote:
> 
> The solution is what they have in many European countries (including 
> Denmark and most recently Spain): charge for plastic bags. This way, 
> people will re-use them. It is one of those example we economists 
> like?even a small price will make people change behaviour significantly.
> 
> Cheers,
> Nathan
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> Nathan Wajsman
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>> On 03 May 2016, at 05:14, Jayanand Govindaraj <jayanand at gmail.com> 
>> wrote:
>> 
>> Well, just to give another point of view, overall they are far, far less
>> degrading to the environment if you take manufacture into account as well,
>> than, say, paper bags - to make the latter, you chop down forests 
>> wholesale
>> and pollute ground water as if there is no tomorrow. Things are never what
>> they superficially seem.
>> Cheers
>> Jayanand
>> 
>>> On Tue, May 3, 2016 at 12:38 AM, Tina Manley <tmanley at gmail.com> 
>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> PESO:
>>> 
>>> They are not only ruining the environment, using petroleum, and causing 
>>> all
>>> kinds of cancer and hormonal changes, but they ruin landscape photos:
>>> 
>>> 
>>> http://tinamanley.photoshelter.com/gallery-image/Iran/G0000YmlbTddL96g/I0000seRDkb_IxMU
>>> 
>>> Tina
>>> 
>>> --
>>> Tina Manley
>>> www.tinamanley.com
>>> tina-manley.artistwebsites.com
>>> 
>>> http://www.alamy.com/stock-photography/3B49552F-90A0-4D0A-A11D-2175C937AA91/Tina+Manley.html
>>> 
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In reply to: Message from tmanley at gmail.com (Tina Manley) ([Leica] IMG: Why Plastic Bags Should Be Banned)
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Message from photo at frozenlight.eu (Nathan Wajsman) ([Leica] IMG: Why Plastic Bags Should Be Banned)