We humans are not great with change.
Case in point: the plastic bag ban.
A great environmental initiative, that the people of the UK, Italy, Germany and France have already adopted, certain Aussies *cough*Andrew Bolt *cough* are in uproar over.
Since Woolworths implemented their plastic bag ban on June 20, apparently certain customer outcry has been so vocal, that the supermarket chain has been forced to come up with a solution in the interim.
Because people are actually the worst.
In order to help shoppers cope during this transitional period, the good people of Woolworths have announced that from today to Sunday, July 8, they will be providing free reusable bags for shoppers that have either forgotten theirs completely or have underestimated the amount of bags required for a weekly shop.
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If most people understood the depth of the "Plastics problem" in our world - I'd like to think that they'd never whinge again.
Sadly there will always be those who are so profoundly stupid and self-entitled they will complain bitterly about the slightest inconvenience.
I'm so sick of the gripes from "old-schoolers" about the attempts of the "Leftie Loonies" who "carry on about the environment".
Without the tireless efforts of those people our air,environment and waterways would be so choked with pollution , refuse and plastics we'd be choking ourselves.
The next thing the whingers will attack is the use of Hemp to replace the plastics which will take hundreds of years to break down and which throttle our wild & sea life to death.
Isn't Hemp the dreaded marijuana - won't we get "high" if we so much as touch it ?
It's going to be a huge job to diffuse the carefully-crafted fear instilled by the billionaire oil companies to prevent idiots from accepting a safer alternative.
The DuPonts and William Randolph Hearst have a hell of a legacy huh.
SA has had a bag ban on single use bags & 10/15cent reusable bags for ages now, it wasn’t that hard to get used to & I don’t remember it being such a big issue when it was implemented. It’s not as if you cannot ever access a plastic bag if you need one & we all know it’s a good idea, just go with it :)