• Question: why do we buy trash bags to just throw them away?

    Asked by alexcarrx to Clare, Glafkos, Paul, Samantha on 9 Mar 2015.
    • Photo: Samantha Terry

      Samantha Terry answered on 9 Mar 2015:

      I think we as consumers have been pushed to believe it is necessary

    • Photo: Clare Devery

      Clare Devery answered on 9 Mar 2015:

      I can’t think of an exact reason. In theory it sounds ridiculous. But I assume they were invented for handiness sake – it would be very messy and difficult to manage the rubbish from a household without some sort of container to move it about. Can you imaging carrying handfuls of eggshells down to the local dump? Mess!

    • Photo: Glafkos Havariyoun

      Glafkos Havariyoun answered on 9 Mar 2015:

      To make everything a lot less messy as Clare said!

      In hospitals for example this is very important in terms of contamination, infections and separating different kinds of trash (chemicals, domestic etc.)

    • Photo: Paul Booker

      Paul Booker answered on 9 Mar 2015:

      Good question! We probably shouldn’t but that’s the system we have at the moment. Hopefully in future we’ll find a way to make almost no rubbish, in the meantime: reduce, reuse, recycle!

    • Photo: anon

      anon answered on 10 Mar 2015:

      here in Scotland we get charged 5p for each bag this has made many people here to reuse our bags or even buy lifetime bags!

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