We see flimsy bags that are compostable here in some Northern Virginia stores and a lot more people have their own bags for the supermarket but I’m not sure if it’s even half yet as both paper and plastic bags are still offered for a slight price. More hotels show the earth friendly signs re towels but not all of them are actually implementing it - unless it’s one where you don’t see the maids every day.
In my recent experience, most hotels no longer clean on a daily basis due to staff shortages.
You can have your room cleaned every day if you want, but you must hang the appropriate service card outside your door at the correct time. Otherwise no service for the entire duration of your stay,no matter how long you'll stay actually is.
I assume they do clean between visitors!
As for the reusable shopping bags, studies of shown that there are serious issues with people using reusable bags as single use bags. It seems that a key point is how much the stores charge for such bags.
Around here, the most common bags in the stores are single use paper bags. In a completely non-scientific personal study, I would say of the bags I see in stores perhaps one in five is reusable, the others will be paper.
Several years ago, Maine banned single use bags in grocery stores and other retailers. It didn't take very long for almost everyone to get with it and start bringing reusable bags everywhere. The flimsy bags for produce are still legal, though. But stores that use them are required to take them back, along with other plastic bags. Supposedly they get recycled.
"The Ellen MacArthur Foundation predicts that by 2050 plastics will consume 20 percent of all oil, will produce 15 percent of the world's CO2 and there will be as much plastic in the ocean as there are fish."
Are we still actually saying/publishing stupid things like this. This is what happens when you give somebody some points on a chart and they grab a ruler and start drawing straight lines!
Whatever happens, you can pretty much guarantee that it won't be what this foundation is predicting with such accuracy.
Nonsense like this is the sort of thing that so damages environmentalists credibility in the eyes of the common man.
I am not sure whether environmentalist understand just how much damage they will do to their cause by this sort of stuff.
Do they not realise how much the common man laughs at them for these stupid projections? Most people will instinctively understand that if you take a few dots on a chart and then draw a straight line through them out into the distance, it's highly unlikely to result in any useful information. Yet they do it time and time again.
When promoting stances on any subject, credibility of the speaker is the basic foundation. Yet few people seem to consider this.
And not ONE word about the fact that 8 of the 10 largest rivers for plastic pollution are in Asia and Africa:
Yangtze China (Asia)
Indus China/India/Pakistan (Asia)
Yellow China (Asia)
Hai He China (Asia)
Ganges India/Bangladesh (Asia)
Pearl (Zhujiang) China (Asia)
Amur Russia/China (Asia)
Mekong Southeast Asia (multiple countries)
Nile Africa (Egypt/Sudan)
Niger Africa (West Africa)
The West is not the problem by ANY comparison. Taking air pollution into account:
- India dominates the global rankings, with 13 of the top 20 most polluted cities and 6 of the top 10. Byrnihat (Assam/Meghalaya border) is currently the most polluted city globally, and Delhi remains the most polluted national capital for the sixth consecutive year.
- Other highly polluted cities are found in Bangladesh, Pakistan, Chad (Africa), Kazakhstan, and Mongolia.
- Chad’s capital, N’Djamena, was ranked the most polluted city in 2024 according to some reports, reflecting severe air quality issues in parts of Africa as well.
- Central and South Asia host the world’s top seven most polluted cities, with South Asian cities consistently exceeding World Health Organization (WHO) air quality guidelines.
So how come we all don't hear much about the West's Eviro-NGOs complaining in these countries?
Oh, and that Marriott sign? Before I retired, I stayed at them a lot during my consulting career. I once asked an insider about it - his reply was that it was more on hitching on the "Greenwash Wagon" in order to save on their labor costs.
Absolutely Lloyd. Great suggestion for personal action on the Earth Day and no plastic bags for Doug Ford in Ontario.
We see flimsy bags that are compostable here in some Northern Virginia stores and a lot more people have their own bags for the supermarket but I’m not sure if it’s even half yet as both paper and plastic bags are still offered for a slight price. More hotels show the earth friendly signs re towels but not all of them are actually implementing it - unless it’s one where you don’t see the maids every day.
In my recent experience, most hotels no longer clean on a daily basis due to staff shortages.
You can have your room cleaned every day if you want, but you must hang the appropriate service card outside your door at the correct time. Otherwise no service for the entire duration of your stay,no matter how long you'll stay actually is.
I assume they do clean between visitors!
As for the reusable shopping bags, studies of shown that there are serious issues with people using reusable bags as single use bags. It seems that a key point is how much the stores charge for such bags.
Around here, the most common bags in the stores are single use paper bags. In a completely non-scientific personal study, I would say of the bags I see in stores perhaps one in five is reusable, the others will be paper.
Several years ago, Maine banned single use bags in grocery stores and other retailers. It didn't take very long for almost everyone to get with it and start bringing reusable bags everywhere. The flimsy bags for produce are still legal, though. But stores that use them are required to take them back, along with other plastic bags. Supposedly they get recycled.
"The Ellen MacArthur Foundation predicts that by 2050 plastics will consume 20 percent of all oil, will produce 15 percent of the world's CO2 and there will be as much plastic in the ocean as there are fish."
Are we still actually saying/publishing stupid things like this. This is what happens when you give somebody some points on a chart and they grab a ruler and start drawing straight lines!
Whatever happens, you can pretty much guarantee that it won't be what this foundation is predicting with such accuracy.
Nonsense like this is the sort of thing that so damages environmentalists credibility in the eyes of the common man.
I did write that a few years ago, I have fallen out of love with the Ellen MacArthur foundation…
Ah understood.
I am not sure whether environmentalist understand just how much damage they will do to their cause by this sort of stuff.
Do they not realise how much the common man laughs at them for these stupid projections? Most people will instinctively understand that if you take a few dots on a chart and then draw a straight line through them out into the distance, it's highly unlikely to result in any useful information. Yet they do it time and time again.
When promoting stances on any subject, credibility of the speaker is the basic foundation. Yet few people seem to consider this.
And not ONE word about the fact that 8 of the 10 largest rivers for plastic pollution are in Asia and Africa:
Yangtze China (Asia)
Indus China/India/Pakistan (Asia)
Yellow China (Asia)
Hai He China (Asia)
Ganges India/Bangladesh (Asia)
Pearl (Zhujiang) China (Asia)
Amur Russia/China (Asia)
Mekong Southeast Asia (multiple countries)
Nile Africa (Egypt/Sudan)
Niger Africa (West Africa)
The West is not the problem by ANY comparison. Taking air pollution into account:
- India dominates the global rankings, with 13 of the top 20 most polluted cities and 6 of the top 10. Byrnihat (Assam/Meghalaya border) is currently the most polluted city globally, and Delhi remains the most polluted national capital for the sixth consecutive year.
- Other highly polluted cities are found in Bangladesh, Pakistan, Chad (Africa), Kazakhstan, and Mongolia.
- Chad’s capital, N’Djamena, was ranked the most polluted city in 2024 according to some reports, reflecting severe air quality issues in parts of Africa as well.
- Central and South Asia host the world’s top seven most polluted cities, with South Asian cities consistently exceeding World Health Organization (WHO) air quality guidelines.
So how come we all don't hear much about the West's Eviro-NGOs complaining in these countries?
Oh, and that Marriott sign? Before I retired, I stayed at them a lot during my consulting career. I once asked an insider about it - his reply was that it was more on hitching on the "Greenwash Wagon" in order to save on their labor costs.
(Source: Perplexity)
TLDR - also off topic.
Yeah, not like it's Earth Day or something!