For someone who has never expressed a view on dogs and, therefore, of NO real interest to ME, Gordon Brown is taking up A LOT of my time right now.
Today, Mr Brown has announced that he would like to see a ban on plastic bags. Well, that's my understanding. Apparently, according to the BBC online http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7101075.stm, this is what's happening:
Mr Brown also said the government would convene a forum of supermarkets, the British Retail Consortium and others to look at how to reduce plastic bags to cut landfill waste.
"I am convinced that we can eliminate single-use disposable bags altogether, in favour of long-lasting and more sustainable alternatives," he said.
And this climate action plan comes hot on the heels of a big piece in yesterday's Mail on Sunday http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=494758&in_page_id=1770, written by Rebecca Hosking who has, with the help of her home town, created the first plastic big-free town in Europe. Check out
www.plasticbagfree.com to see what amazing things they have done together.
And now, in my own city of London, 33 boroughs have pledged to support a Government bill that proposes a ban on free bags.
The thing is, as any responsible dog owner will testify, plastic bags CAN be useful; if you live in any urban environment, you should ALWAYS clear up after your dog. But but but there is no need to pollute our world in this way so that animals and sea life, across the other side of the planet, choke to death on stray plastic bags. Not only that, these creatures are at the bottom of the food chain and remember, if it's bad news for them, it's going to be bad news for YOU!
So, given that nothing in life is free, it seems that those plastic bags - handed out with all your shopping - have cost us all a great deal more.
Woof Woof
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