Why not use all the old carrier bags......?

Question

to plug the hole in the ozone layer?

I mean, if they are all going to rot for 100's of years in the ground, we should look for an alternative use that will be of some benefit.

I reckon we s***w them all up in a huge ball and shove them up in to the Ozone Layer hole, and hey presto, all the worlds problems will be over and we can all pay less tax. Unless Labour get in again, when we're all nadgered ANYWAY.

Answer 1

an interesting way of looking at things not sure it would work though

Answer 2

Lots of nonsense in this question.

Plastic carrier bags should simply carry a deposit (non refundable) and they can be recycled. As has been shown putting a price on them reduces their use (abuse).

Would you be willing to live under that giant ball of plastic bags, 1000s of tonnes of them, held up in the upper atmosphere by chewing gum and sky hooks no doubt? (or perhaps pixie dust?) Would you sleep well knowing they could all come crashing down on you?

Answer 3

Because big oil companies have a huge infrastructure already in place for diesel and gasoline.  They are not about to change it for nothing.

Answer 4

Nice idea, but by plugging up the whole, you'd trap even more heat - and the whole global warming thing would kick off again.

Perhaps we should just bury them so that they do eventually degrade back into oil for future generations...

Answer 5

big chief like to throw his wife in with a lot of her stuff in the tepee

Answer 6

Nice idea if you could reach the ozone layer! I learnt some years ago that if you cut the bags into 2.5cm wide strips (one bag=one strip), and tie them together, then you can crochet them into very long -lasting washable doormats/pegbags/etc. I'm sure that you could crochet them into a very long rope that you could use to get to the ozone layer if you tried hard enough!

Answer 7

In ireland, carrier bags went from being free to carrying a 15 cent (about 25 cent U.S.) govt. levy.  Now pretty  much everyone reuses old bags or buys big a big sturdy 'bag for life' which the use all the time. Its a simple soloution.  Now i live in China, and with my weekly shop in local french supermarket "Carrefour' i get an average of 8 plastic bags.  In ireland this would cost 2 dollars or 700 dollars a year. ireland has seen a 80-90 % drop in plastic bag consumption. - say a million house holds, 8 bags per week. In america this would be 100 million households X8X52 - that is a shitload of plastic

Answer 8

this makes no sense at all.