Posted 5 January 2018 to the Otago Daily Times Newspaper Dunedin NZ.
I was starting to wonder if the population has ANY free will when it comes to saving the environment but today someone has had enough of plastic straws and is getting traction in the media...
Years ago I wrote to several Key Mayors including Tim Shadbolt of Invercargill if they could join together for the people they represent and do what central government cant seem to do... Fight Waste which is a huge ratepayer Burdon.
Problem number one is multinationals make tons of non returnable containers of which they expect ratepayers to dispose of into our environment and our lame Government caved into this without so much as a whimper.
Even the Green Party appears mute on this subject.
As someone in the hospitality industry I am alarmed buy the increasing amount of this trash like water bottles that where never even a remote a necessity in the past.
And why old school paper grocery bags are not a choice in a country that makes so much paper is beyond me.
Go on mayors, try and get your free will back and do something hopeful !
published 8th Jan 2018
I was starting to wonder if the population has ANY free will when it comes to saving the environment but today someone has had enough of plastic straws and is getting traction in the media...
Years ago I wrote to several Key Mayors including Tim Shadbolt of Invercargill if they could join together for the people they represent and do what central government cant seem to do... Fight Waste which is a huge ratepayer Burdon.
Problem number one is multinationals make tons of non returnable containers of which they expect ratepayers to dispose of into our environment and our lame Government caved into this without so much as a whimper.
Even the Green Party appears mute on this subject.
As someone in the hospitality industry I am alarmed buy the increasing amount of this trash like water bottles that where never even a remote a necessity in the past.
And why old school paper grocery bags are not a choice in a country that makes so much paper is beyond me.
Go on mayors, try and get your free will back and do something hopeful !
published 8th Jan 2018
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