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Don't look for links to get convinced. Look around you. Everywhere. The evidence of what polythene bags do is staring at your face. And if you must, watch this one video:
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1. STRONG objection to address this letter as Sir. I believe, Mr. Ramesh is elected by Indian population to do the job FOR them, so I don't see any need to offer extra respect.
ReplyDelete2. To use paper, you will have to cut more trees. Agreed but at the same time, look at countries like Sweden and Finland where majority of economy is based on paper. The statistics says that if you have controlled tress cutting then over the period of time, plantation of trees and overall area covered by the jungle increases. This is applicable to law-abiding politicians, companies and bureaucrats. India needs to fix 'law-abiding' issues then using paper would certainly replace plastic in some of the cases. Can Mr. Ramesh address these issues on board panel?
3. Jute is another best alternative, supporting small communities and their income, will certainly help reducing poverty in few parts of India. Why not promote that? exactly as claimed in the letter.
Overall, very well written letter. Lets see how Mr. Ramesh replies, if he at all !!
Only if they looked at sense.
ReplyDeleteThe biggest reason why they won't is the fact that plastic lobby = petroleum lobby. And you know how strong that is.
Plastic bags have been banned in Delhi no?
ReplyDeletehttp://www.google.com/search?q=plastic+bags+banned+in+delhi&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-GB:official&client=firefox-a
With regard to trees, I doubt people would replace cut trees with 'jungle' rather a mono-culture of the fastest growing, straightest trees.
In Kathmandu, the first small step to banning plastic bags has taken place in a supermarket selling all goods, even some vegetables, wrapped in plastic to some degree. Pissink in the wind I feel.
People hate this ban though they'll get over it. Many require the strong supermarket bags for wrapping their waste up at home. Until there is an alternative solution to that (how hard can it be?) people will keep wanting the free bags.