Comments on: No Plastic http://www.jessicarulestheuniverse.com/2008/07/27/no-plastic/ Twisted by Jessica Zafra - Pumping irony since 1994 Fri, 10 Feb 2012 16:07:41 +0000 hourly 1 By: capitanmontressor http://www.jessicarulestheuniverse.com/2008/07/27/no-plastic/comment-page-1/#comment-36749 capitanmontressor Fri, 01 Aug 2008 01:45:09 +0000 http://jessicarulestheuniverse.com/2008/07/27/no-plastic/#comment-36749 I get the weird looks to whenever I refuse my plastic bags in 7-11. Oh. And Empire of the Sun? For your 2-year old niece? Man, I wish you were my aunt! Mine just keeps nudging me into taking New Age thingies. I get the weird looks to whenever I refuse my plastic bags in 7-11.

Oh. And Empire of the Sun? For your 2-year old niece? Man, I wish you were my aunt! Mine just keeps nudging me into taking New Age thingies.

]]> By: IceQueen http://www.jessicarulestheuniverse.com/2008/07/27/no-plastic/comment-page-1/#comment-36745 IceQueen Thu, 31 Jul 2008 14:49:33 +0000 http://jessicarulestheuniverse.com/2008/07/27/no-plastic/#comment-36745 Is there some recycling center in manila? I try to find those "bote-dyaryo" people and actually give them my recyclables (Yay, charity plus eco-consciousness, hehe.) but they're not regular. Lalo na with paper. In St Luke's where I used to train there were tons of paper and I thought of collecting them for recycling purposes but I hesitated coz sa akin na tatambak yun. Limited din ung licing space ko. Also, sometimes, the bote-dyaryo peeps go to the next level and as for a hand-out na. I apparently have more than they do but I don't have an endless financial source. That's why I'd love to be rich enough not to care how I spend my money. Is there some recycling center in manila? I try to find those “bote-dyaryo” people and actually give them my recyclables (Yay, charity plus eco-consciousness, hehe.) but they’re not regular. Lalo na with paper. In St Luke’s where I used to train there were tons of paper and I thought of collecting them for recycling purposes but I hesitated coz sa akin na tatambak yun. Limited din ung licing space ko. Also, sometimes, the bote-dyaryo peeps go to the next level and as for a hand-out na. I apparently have more than they do but I don’t have an endless financial source. That’s why I’d love to be rich enough not to care how I spend my money.

]]> By: Jerome David http://www.jessicarulestheuniverse.com/2008/07/27/no-plastic/comment-page-1/#comment-36718 Jerome David Wed, 30 Jul 2008 06:34:24 +0000 http://jessicarulestheuniverse.com/2008/07/27/no-plastic/#comment-36718 Tesco's supermarkets in England lets you return used plastics for recycling. When I used to live there, I'd make sure that I return the plastic bags. They actually have a specific area by the supermarket's entrance where you could just put these. Also, they offer biodegradable shopping bags that they call Bag for Life. It's really durable and the good thing is, they give you discounts to basic commodities when you purchase these bags. Now that I'm living here in California, I find it ridiculous that big supermarkets still use plastic bags! There's actually a bill at the CA Assembly to add tax to plastic bags to keep people from using them. I'm just not sure if this is the best way to promote "Being Green" in CA. Enough said. Tesco’s supermarkets in England lets you return used plastics for recycling. When I used to live there, I’d make sure that I return the plastic bags. They actually have a specific area by the supermarket’s entrance where you could just put these. Also, they offer biodegradable shopping bags that they call Bag for Life. It’s really durable and the good thing is, they give you discounts to basic commodities when you purchase these bags. Now that I’m living here in California, I find it ridiculous that big supermarkets still use plastic bags! There’s actually a bill at the CA Assembly to add tax to plastic bags to keep people from using them. I’m just not sure if this is the best way to promote “Being Green” in CA. Enough said.

]]> By: volume-addict http://www.jessicarulestheuniverse.com/2008/07/27/no-plastic/comment-page-1/#comment-36710 volume-addict Tue, 29 Jul 2008 23:25:16 +0000 http://jessicarulestheuniverse.com/2008/07/27/no-plastic/#comment-36710 Our city council over here passed a measure for a plastic shopping bag fee. http://current.com/items/89146553_seattle_city_council_approves_plastic_shopping_bag_fee Our city council over here passed a measure for a plastic shopping bag fee.

http://current.com/items/89146553_seattle_city_council_approves_plastic_shopping_bag_fee

]]> By: LittleMsSunshine http://www.jessicarulestheuniverse.com/2008/07/27/no-plastic/comment-page-1/#comment-36705 LittleMsSunshine Tue, 29 Jul 2008 12:03:23 +0000 http://jessicarulestheuniverse.com/2008/07/27/no-plastic/#comment-36705 I was without internet connection for the past 3 days so forgive me for the delayed comment. And I cannot help but comment because 5 minutes after reading the entry I am still thinking how I can be part of the solution when I have a cabinet full of plastic bags. The only reason why I have this cabinet full of them is because I don’t want to throw them as they will just clog the drains. Looking back, plastic bags are only useful on one occasion (for me that is): during swimming outings so I can still bring home my wet clothes. Now, I am stuck with a cabinet full of plastics with no wet clothes. Salesladies probably are not aware. They just know that they have to keep using plastic bags. No brain involved. I don’t think we should blame them either. They’ve got other stuff in their minds. How about like an ATM machine where we can deposit our plastics and we can like accumulate points, so much like the idea of…SM advantage card! I was without internet connection for the past 3 days so forgive me for the delayed comment. And I cannot help but comment because 5 minutes after reading the entry I am still thinking how I can be part of the solution when I have a cabinet full of plastic bags. The only reason why I have this cabinet full of them is because I don’t want to throw them as they will just clog the drains.

Looking back, plastic bags are only useful on one occasion (for me that is): during swimming outings so I can still bring home my wet clothes. Now, I am stuck with a cabinet full of plastics with no wet clothes.

Salesladies probably are not aware. They just know that they have to keep using plastic bags. No brain involved. I don’t think we should blame them either. They’ve got other stuff in their minds.

How about like an ATM machine where we can deposit our plastics and we can like accumulate points, so much like the idea of…SM advantage card!

]]> By: jessicazafra http://www.jessicarulestheuniverse.com/2008/07/27/no-plastic/comment-page-1/#comment-36703 jessicazafra Tue, 29 Jul 2008 06:11:23 +0000 http://jessicarulestheuniverse.com/2008/07/27/no-plastic/#comment-36703 It's our duty to mock and deflate the rich and powerful, but let's not get sentimental about the poor. It’s our duty to mock and deflate the rich and powerful, but let’s not get sentimental about the poor.

]]> By: rmsblue http://www.jessicarulestheuniverse.com/2008/07/27/no-plastic/comment-page-1/#comment-36694 rmsblue Mon, 28 Jul 2008 20:08:43 +0000 http://jessicarulestheuniverse.com/2008/07/27/no-plastic/#comment-36694 It's the culture dominated by the rich, upper classes that's mata-pobre and the poor jaguars and salesladies under their employ are understandably beholden to abide (consciously or subconciously) by that culture. I just love it when discussion of the most benign topics somehow transmutes into a class war. The use of plastic shopping bags as anecdotal evidence of the continued stratification of our neo-colonial society. It’s the culture dominated by the rich, upper classes that’s mata-pobre and the poor jaguars and salesladies under their employ are understandably beholden to abide (consciously or subconciously) by that culture. I just love it when discussion of the most benign topics somehow transmutes into a class war. The use of plastic shopping bags as anecdotal evidence of the continued stratification of our neo-colonial society.

]]> By: jessicazafra http://www.jessicarulestheuniverse.com/2008/07/27/no-plastic/comment-page-1/#comment-36691 jessicazafra Mon, 28 Jul 2008 16:25:38 +0000 http://jessicarulestheuniverse.com/2008/07/27/no-plastic/#comment-36691 Tama si royal spence. Mata-pobre ang mga sikyo at tindera sa mall. Karamihan naman sa mga Pilipino mahihirap. Ano yan, self-loathing? Tama si royal spence. Mata-pobre ang mga sikyo at tindera sa mall. Karamihan naman sa mga Pilipino mahihirap. Ano yan, self-loathing?

]]> By: humanum777 http://www.jessicarulestheuniverse.com/2008/07/27/no-plastic/comment-page-1/#comment-36690 humanum777 Mon, 28 Jul 2008 14:48:27 +0000 http://jessicarulestheuniverse.com/2008/07/27/no-plastic/#comment-36690 Sales clerks in a number of European countries ask if you need a plastic bag or not. I agree, American Beauty is overrated. I found it contrived and manipulative. Sales clerks in a number of European countries ask if you need a plastic bag or not.

I agree, American Beauty is overrated.
I found it contrived and manipulative.

]]> By: Askaniclan http://www.jessicarulestheuniverse.com/2008/07/27/no-plastic/comment-page-1/#comment-36681 Askaniclan Mon, 28 Jul 2008 06:07:03 +0000 http://jessicarulestheuniverse.com/2008/07/27/no-plastic/#comment-36681 I am based in China and since June this year, the government implemented charging for plastic bags in retail establishments. Plastic bags now costs from about P1.50 to P10.00, depending on size and quality. I am based in China and since June this year, the government implemented charging for plastic bags in retail establishments. Plastic bags now costs from about P1.50 to P10.00, depending on size and quality.

]]> By: jediknight http://www.jessicarulestheuniverse.com/2008/07/27/no-plastic/comment-page-1/#comment-36677 jediknight Mon, 28 Jul 2008 02:17:47 +0000 http://jessicarulestheuniverse.com/2008/07/27/no-plastic/#comment-36677 "That is the burden of the thinking citizens: the bafflement of the ignorant." I like this sentence, reminds me of the title of an Asimov book "The Gods Themselves." (If memory serves me right, that is. It doesn't, sometimes.) The title's from Schiller-- "Against stupidity, the gods themselves contend in vain." People aren't really bad, I think. Stupidity and ignorance are the real problems. There are also the over-educated idiots who, more often than not, are the ones who make decisions that affect the rest of us poor slobs. These O. E. I.'s also write textbooks, a fact that explains a lot, really. It's rainy AND Monday, as I write this. “That is the burden of the thinking citizens: the bafflement of the ignorant.”
I like this sentence, reminds me of the title of an Asimov book “The Gods Themselves.” (If memory serves me right, that is. It doesn’t, sometimes.) The title’s from Schiller– “Against stupidity, the gods themselves contend in vain.”
People aren’t really bad, I think. Stupidity and ignorance are the real problems. There are also the over-educated idiots who, more often than not, are the ones who make decisions that affect the rest of us poor slobs. These O. E. I.’s also write textbooks, a fact that explains a lot, really.
It’s rainy AND Monday, as I write this.

]]> By: jeg http://www.jessicarulestheuniverse.com/2008/07/27/no-plastic/comment-page-1/#comment-36676 jeg Mon, 28 Jul 2008 02:01:50 +0000 http://jessicarulestheuniverse.com/2008/07/27/no-plastic/#comment-36676 Great idea. You know what I noticed though? Plastic seems to be a good way to prevent erosion. Remember how those landfill hills of garbage manage to keep their shape in anything but the most serious rains? It's because of the plastic bags. I wonder if plastic can be recycled into some sort of mulch mixed with soil to prevent erosion of topsoil in farms. Or maybe they can be used to make adobe bricks instead of straw for construction of low cost housing. The possibilities are endless. Great idea.

You know what I noticed though? Plastic seems to be a good way to prevent erosion. Remember how those landfill hills of garbage manage to keep their shape in anything but the most serious rains? It’s because of the plastic bags. I wonder if plastic can be recycled into some sort of mulch mixed with soil to prevent erosion of topsoil in farms. Or maybe they can be used to make adobe bricks instead of straw for construction of low cost housing. The possibilities are endless.

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