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Saturday, January 31, 2009

Green Bag or food to fill the bag

Being able to bring food on the table became a top priority. No time to think about Green life. It just like the story of chicken first or egg first. We are undecided to replace Polythene and Polypropylene bag for a reusable Cloth bag. The dilemma is no money to even buy food. So how can fill up a Green bag? Why that happened? What has been done wrong?

Every human action is connected to its consequences. Especially since 20th century the world became too addicted in over acting with so called industrialization. This action has tortured too much to our planet. Also this industrialization created a bubble of base less fragile economy and modern life. We just forgot about the harmony between Mother Nature and modernization.

Our planet has everything for us to lead our life if we take care about our planet. Same as a mother always has everything to protect her child. Green Life means leading the life which has a harmony with the Mother Nature. Not in counter of the nature. In order to be over industrialized we have serious problems related to health, nutrition, over stress, Spiritual, happiness etc. Now in top of all we have food shortage in our robotic life. That happened because of anti green life.

Now the question comes again. How can we think about investing in Green Life and Green Bag, if we even can not afford to buy food? The answer is it will be worst if we do not break through this vicious cycle and reverse the life into Green. Green life will bring us back into base. And Green bag is part of a Green life.

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Tuesday, January 13, 2009

Is Polypropylene bag Green?

Is the word Going Green being used to make a real social and cultural change in favor of Green choice? I have doubt about this in most cases. Every company are labeling Green in their advertisement, trade shows etc. It just became a new toot to market any product.

Let see the Green Shopping bag or Green Grocery bag. Everybody is trying to stop using the Polythene bag. This is the right way to start on. One time use of Polythene bag should be a Crime. It is oil based material. It consumes lot of Energy to produce. But the uses of these bags are just to carry something from the store to home and dump it after that. Because of low cost we are getting addicted more and more in using these bags. But what happen after we dump it? It starts to release CO2 in the atmosphere for 1000 years. Scientists say Polythene is not biodegradable. It may never degrade or take 1000 years to degrade. So, thousands of ploy bag dumped everyday are accumulating. It is dangerous. So, stop using Poly bag and think about alternative is the first right step to take.


But what alternative are we taking about? Most large companies are intending to put a Green label in the Polypropylene bag. They say it is reusable. But did they say that Polypropylene bags are exactly same as polythene bag in the method of producing and dumping after use? They did not mention that. They say it is Recyclable. Did they say how to recycle it? No, it is not possible to separate the Polypropylene from other material to recycle it. Also it costs very high the recycling process of polypropylene. So, what this mean? This is exactly same as the Polyethylene bag. They just want to keep making money at cost of our planet and humane life by labeling the Green Advertisements in the Polypropylene bag.


We should reject that immediately. And use a Cloth bag.

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Sunday, August 24, 2008

Should we use Paper bag or Corn Starch bag to avoid Polythene?

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Industrialization provides us the modern world to live better. But is this really true? May not 100% true. Unconsciously we had started to abuse the use of industrialization. Finally we became conscious about the environment. Now the environmental question is widely asked everywhere. People are trying hard to find alternative for everything, such as, Fuel, Energy, organic food, green house gas, efficient Cars etc. But all these issues are a real challenge to find alternative with out sacrificing the current speed of life. But a few people have paid attention on a simple issue to improve environment. That is the Polythene Shopping bag problem.


These bags are made of Petroleum base. Which is valuable for other important uses. But that is not the only problem. The biggest problem is how to discompose that Polythene bag once we use that just for carrying Grocery from the store to home. Right after it goes to the Garbage Container. It is almost impossible to keep separate the polythene bag from any other garbage for the proper land filling. Even it is separated for recycling or decomposition, how much it costs to process? May be $0.17 for each bag. But to produce the bag costs only $0.02. And use of the bag may be for less than one hour.

Should we recycle the plastic to make a Recycled bag? No, because a lot of Energy needs to recycle the Plastic. That should be a bad Medicine to hide a disease. Not cure the disease from the root.


Does the Polythene bag create problem for Environment? Of course yes, No need to be a scientist to realize that. The abuse of using Polythene bag is like a bacteria. It increases every second with out a real necessity to use. Do we need any un discovered or a Hi-tech to find out an alternative to the Polythene bag such as electric car or Fuel alternative? No, we just need to be conscious and use a reusable Organic bag as we did 50 years ago. But at cheaper price. Because the industrialization makes it cheaper. So we take advantage of industrialization. Not abuse the Industrialization.

See the alternative to the Polythene Bag Comparator bellow:


Comparator Paper bag Corn Starch Plastic Bag
Organic Fabric Bag
Environmental Will Cut Trees Doubtful OK
Material Source Not Renewable Wasting Food OK
Strength ness No Good No Good OK
Reuse No Good No Good OK
Ban in future No Good No Good OK
Reduce Unnecessary Use Uses will Increase Uses will Increase OK
Reuse to Litter garbage No Good Not Strong Enough OK
Wild Fire/ Flying Garbage OK No Good OK



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