Last week I've heared in the radio a reportation about platic bags e.g. these one which you get in the shopping stores where you buy your clothes. And in the report they said the EU perhaps will forbidden plastic bags. What's your mind about this theme?

I think it would be great. Everywhere you get this bags and, if you have arrived at home, you take it in the refuse bin.

It is such a waste!!! I think it would be better if everybody has a bag made of cloth that you can use for ages.

Or a bag made of paper that you can recycle.

yeah I think so too.

because if you burn plastic there arrise a lot of CO2 and I think wheter there aren't any plastic bags anymore there's less burning of plastic

--> less CO2

Plastic bags need 1000 years to decompose and in Germany 65 plastic bags are fabricated per year per inhabitant. That means 80 000 000 * 65 platic bags per year just in Germany. 

There's another fact about one-way ball pens and pocket lighters because they decompose never. Worldwide every day 14 000 000 ball pens are selled and after   50 000 years they are still on our world. This has nothing to do with plastic bags but it really shocked me and I want to tell you that.

Hi,

Im new to the site, but I am realy enjoying reading all the interesting posts you guys have put up.

Im from South Africa, and to me it seems asthough people are not aware of how big an impact they have on the environment.Everyone thinks that the little bit of water that they waste or the light that they leave on or the extra plastic bag that they ues has no real effect, and that it makes up such a small part of the bigger problem that it will go unnoticed. its asthough they think they realy cant make a difference, and so they dont even try. We need to show people the impact that can be made if we all just did our best to follow the three R's: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

In Recent years southafricans have started to be more environmentally concious, and the government has even enforced a law which makes customers pay for their plastic bags at most grocery stores. this has definetally lead to a reduction in the amount of bags used. it is sad however that it is necissary to enforce a law with financial impacts to make people do what should come naturally.

I think that the Pangea Initiative is absolutely amazing, and could make a REAL difference in motivating people to DO instead of just talk of what must be done. :)