runner,
yep because we have people who want as much as possible for as little as possible. Value for money & value for effort are no longer a benchmark. One person is running around a Post office 8 hours a day to keep things moving whilst in every Govt office some bureaudroids are spending 7 hours on facebook & one hour drinking coffee from plastic cups.

Ok, so to the next problem, hygiene.

This is something I touched on myself well before the ban, and now it is real, as reports are coming in that some customer supplied bags are containing the likes of mice, or mouse droppings, dirty stains, even soiled nappies, that are being removed prior to the goods going in.

In my industry it has been illegal for years to use any container provided by a customer, even a meat carton that we receive sealed packaged meats in, however this restriction appears to have been removed in line with the bag ban.

Of cause irresponsible people are usually quick to blame anyone but themselves, so the question has to asked, who is going to cop the blame, not if, but when someone falls ill from a contaminated, customer supplied bag/container.

It is possible to have a container that contained chicken juice, very toxic, that once dried may appear clean, then place fresh meat, or even worse, cooked meats like ham etc into it and consume. The consequences can be as bad as death.

Then there is the effects of the blame game, because with the introduction of the likes of facebook, being a businesses best and worst friend at times, adverse comments can cause serious harm to a business, especially a small business and in fact I have had one such incident that has effected my 5 start rating. We did nothing wrong but it effected our rating.

While it may be fine for someone to blame others, the effects on ones business can be very costly, not to mention totally unfair and unwarranted.

Sorry, but while I understand the reasoning behind the ban, this is not the answer, especially if we have an infant or a senior die of food poisoning as they are usually the most venerable.

I have sailed 10,000 nautical miles up & down the Oz east coast, 53000 miles around the Pacific islands, all in a 40Ft yacht, so very close to the water. I have also run tourist boats in the Great Barrier Reef for 8 years.

In all of that I have never seen a plastic shopping bag on the reef, on any of the islands, or on the mainland coast.

This is utter garbage promoted by those useful idiots the greenies, picked up by supermarkets to cut costs.

runner,

You stated that wind farms kill enormous amounts of
birds.

The problem is much more serious than that.
All over the world and especially in the less developed
societies, the pressure of the human population and its
technologies is devastating natural ecosystems.

This pressure takes many forms - urbanization, and highway
construction, transformation of virgin land into farmland,
chemical pollution of fresh water, dredging and landfill
in coastal areas, uncontrolled hunting and poaching,
especially of African wildlife, deliberate and accidental
poisoning of wildlife with pesticides, disruption of
natural predator-prey relationships, strangulation of
millions of birds and fish with discarded styrofoam pellets,
plastic bags, and other synthetic flotsam, dam construction and
irrigation, and massive deforestation.

Biologists estimate that there are anywhere between 5 million
and 50 million species on earth. Of these only about 1.6
million have been classified. The rest - plants, insects,
fish, reptiles, birds, and even some mammals - are still
almost complete mysteries to us. They have never been named,
catalogues, or studied, yet many are becoming extinct even before
we know of their existence. And who knows our future
survival could depend on them. Yet we are so carelessly
destroying. Bears thinking about.

Foxy

u really do make me laugh at times.

Foxy,

Where is the uncontrolled hunting of African wildlife?

Specifically not just "Africa" for an answer.