When I was a young man, a long time ago, bottles were glass and bags were paper. Why cant the supermarkets revert to those? Bottles were returned and paper used to light our fires. Then we moved to gas (mainly) central heating, Now that is a no no. Incidentally what will happen to the businesses that primarily sell gas appliances? Will they be compensated?
Append um. What happens to all the rubbish collected by the latest clean-up campaign?
Domestic gas is to be banned in a few years.
No it isn't.
Glass is heavier than plastic, but I suppose someone might develop lighter weight tougher glass.
Morrison's is moving back to paper.
What's so magic about biogas? How does it differ from methane?
I can just about remember how well that didn't go, and that was with the Gas Board.
Now I expect it would be something like the smart meter fiasco.
Owain
They already did, the small thin bottles used for continental style beer in supermarkets being an example.
OK. That still leaves the weight issue, although I'd be in favour of banning plastic bottles either way.
Cheaper, lighter, safer. The problem is not the bottles, it is the people who don't take care disposing of them.
Banning the sale of bottled water would be a good way to save some of the environment. It really isn't needed.
Which means the problem is the bottles. Forget pie-in-the-sky dreams about "getting people to do the right thing". They never have and never will.
Nice thing about glass is it degrades back to ... sand.
Pretty much +1. Although fizzy water is nice, it's what we buy.
Most isn't. The same is true of coke, fizy orange & all the other soft drinks. I think you'd have an uphill job banning them all.
NT
The best way to lighten a material is to perforate it.
Bill
What if your tap water is horrid to taste?
Bill
You can get a filter or if desperate a Revere Osmosis machine. Actually pure water is meant to taste foul!
Banning TV would save more, think of the electricity that would be saved. Lots of things could be banned that we don't need to survive.
Do it when the bottle is full - holey water!
If it's made from something growing, it'll take the carbon from the atmosphere so it'll be carbon neutral.
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