PLASTIC BAGS

SCENARIO 1: As soon as single use plastic bags have been emptied of shopping and other important human purchases, they converse with each other, have a democratic vote and decide that it’s time for a holiday, so they all hire a cab and race off to the beach to immediately throw themselves into the sea, thereby polluting our environment and damaging the Great Barrier Reef, so our Government legislates that all single use plastic bags must be banned.

SCENARIO 2: Recreational fishermen, surfers, boaties, barbecuing picnickers, beach bathers and walkers, motorists and many others cart their supplies for the day down to the beach in single use plastic bags.

After consuming all the food and emptying the plastic bags of all the goodies and other paraphernalia, they are then discarded or thrown away to blow in the wind to end up in our oceans, polluting our environment and damaging sea creatures as well as the Great Barrier Reef.

THE TRUTH: Its recreational fishermen, surfers, boaties, barbecuing picnickers, beach bathers, and walkers, plus motorists who are to blame, not an inert piece of plastic.

When will these people become accountable for their actions of pollution dumping?

Even when plastic bags are no longer available, and the replacement (plastic) bags are in service, these polluters will dump their carrying bags into the ocean, so what to do?

ANSWER: Go directly to the cause and ban the real culprits!

Ban everything which, due to irresponsible behaviour by a disproportionate group of Australians is damaging our planet.

Close the beaches, lakes and rivers, forbid surfing, barbecues, picnics and fishing and any other activity creating pollution, then surely the problem will be solved.

Stop blaming the poor old innocent plastic bag!

BRIAN SAYERS, Millmerran