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Flip-Flops and Carrier Bags

Posted on August 5, 2018 by Tim Newman

William of Ockham risks legal action over exclusivity rights to bring us this story about carrier bags: In Australia, most states/territories, with the exception of New South Wales, have banned supermarkets from giving away single use plastic bags with shopping. In … Continue reading →

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Posted in Australia, Business, Environmentalism

BREAKING: Plastic found to be useful

Posted on July 6, 2018 by Tim Newman

This from the BBC is a surprisingly balanced and informative article on plastic use: Located in the south Atlantic, on the fringes of the Antarctic, it is nearly 1,000 miles (1,500km) from the nearest major human settlement. Yet even here … Continue reading →

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Plastic in the Ocean

Posted on December 5, 2017 by Tim Newman

Ocean plastic a ‘planetary crisis’ booms the UN. Life in the seas risks irreparable damage from a rising tide of plastic waste, the UN oceans chief has warned. Lisa Svensson said governments, firms and individual people must act far more … Continue reading →

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Kenya bans carrier bags

Posted on August 29, 2017 by Tim Newman

I now return to my second favourite niche blog topic after polyamory: carrier bags! A friend points me towards this article as proof that banning carrier bags is not just a wealthy, middle-class hobby-horse. Let’s see, shall we? Kenyans producing, … Continue reading →

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Carrier Bags Bad, Disposable Nappies Good

Posted on February 2, 2017 by Tim Newman

One of the reasons why I think the whole climate change alarmism is, well, alarmism is because the obvious solution is almost always dismissed out of hand. If climate change is occurring and it is due to humans releasing too … Continue reading →

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Even More on Carrier Bags

Posted on September 29, 2016 by Tim Newman

This is the post I know you’ve all been waiting for!  Further to my previous two posts on carrier bags, I now have something more to add. Back in August I said that my local supermarket had stopped providing free … Continue reading →

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Posted in Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Environmentalism, France

More on Carrier Bags

Posted on August 6, 2016 by Tim Newman

I can’t believe I’m going to write a second post on carrier bags, let alone in the same week as the first, but that’s blogging for you.  Tim Worstall did me a solid and linked to my piece over at … Continue reading →

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Chesterton’s Fence and Carrier Bags

Posted on August 1, 2016 by Tim Newman

As with seemingly a good portion of my newly-acquired knowledge, I first heard about Chesterton’s Fence over at Tim Worstall’s blog.  Chesterton’s Fence is the principle that reforms should not be made until the reasoning behind the existing state of … Continue reading →

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Posted in Environmentalism, France, Politics, USSR

Dumb baggery

Posted on November 29, 2019 by Tim Newman

Now there’s a surprise: Sales of “bags for life” rose to 1.5bn last year as the amount of plastic used by supermarkets increased to 900,000 tonnes, Greenpeace research has found. … Many supermarkets have stopped selling 5p single-use bags altogether … Continue reading →

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Devil in the Retail

Posted on September 8, 2019 by Tim Newman

Via a reader on Twitter, an academic paper on one of this blog’s favourite subjects, the effectiveness of banning single-use plastic bags. Here’s the abstract: Leakage occurs when partial regulation of consumer products results in increased consumption of these products … Continue reading →

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