Taiwan ban single-use plastic straws, plastic bags, disposable utensils by 2030

Re:Taiwan ban single-use plastic straws, plastic bags, dispo... by autokad on Thursday February 22, 2018 @11:34AM (#16438784)

if you ever had your milk go splat on the pavement after it went right through your plastic bag, then yeah, its not enough.

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Re:Taiwan ban single-use plastic straws, plastic bags, dispo... by oneplane on Thursday February 22, 2018 @11:39AM (#16438836)

There are amazing fabrics today that can solve this; one called cotton and another called nylon.

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Re:Taiwan ban single-use plastic straws, plastic bags, dispo... by wnissen on Thursday February 22, 2018 @11:40AM (#16438839)

Plastic bags hold about 20-30 pounds, how much milk are we talking?

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Re:Taiwan ban single-use plastic straws, plastic bags, dispo... by rhplus on Thursday February 22, 2018 @12:41PM (#16439455)

Many US supermarkets use very thin plastic bags. I'm guessing 0.5 mil []. They're noticeably thinner than the type you (used) to get from UK supermarkets. This site suggests that "reusable" type would be > 2.25 mil.

https://1bagatatime.com/learn/what-is-a-mill/

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Re:Taiwan ban single-use plastic straws, plastic bags, dispo... by coldtea on Thursday February 22, 2018 @11:45AM (#16438892)

Plastic bags can easily tear with just a small box being sideways and its corners cutting into the bag...

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Re:Taiwan ban single-use plastic straws, plastic bags, dispo... by BinaryIdiot on Thursday February 22, 2018 @11:57AM (#16439016)

Depends on the type of plastic bag. If we're talking Walmart grade plastic bags then those are not going to hold 20 pounds. You'd be lucky to hold 10 pounds with those terrible bags. Safeway bags, thought? Those are crazy thick and strong and could easily handle 30 pounds.

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Re:Taiwan ban single-use plastic straws, plastic bags, dispo... by jwilk on Thursday February 22, 2018 @12:09PM (#16439126)

For metrics units users, that's 9-14 kg.

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Re:Taiwan ban single-use plastic straws, plastic bags, dispo... by ekianjo on Thursday February 22, 2018 @11:51AM (#16438958)

Why not bring your own (non-plastic) bag though?

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Re:Taiwan ban single-use plastic straws, plastic bags, dispo... by sdfasdasfsf on Thursday February 22, 2018 @12:05PM (#16439097)

... we forget.

Glad to know you're helping bring down the average though

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Re:Taiwan ban single-use plastic straws, plastic bags, dispo... by ekianjo on Monday February 26, 2018 @06:09AM (#16464513)

> ... we forget.

My technique is to always have such bags in my bags so that I never go anywhere without having them on me. Redundancy :)

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Re:Taiwan ban single-use plastic straws, plastic bags, dispo... by monk_e_boy on Thursday February 22, 2018 @12:56PM (#16439617)

Do they sell cloth bags in the shops?

If shops stopped selling plastic bags people would figure out a solution.

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Re:Taiwan ban single-use plastic straws, plastic bags, dispo... by sdfasdasfsf on Thursday February 22, 2018 @01:18PM (#16439850)

And if social media companies were legislated out of business people would figure out solutions to staying in touch and we'd avoid all the zombies we're creating [1].

But then we cease to be a liberal (as in live and let live) society.

[1] I for one despise being in the company of someone on their phone while we're talking in the same way that others can't seem to forget the plastic tidal pool in the oceans.

I also walk and ride so the addictiveness of social media is literally a mortal danger to me in a way plastic bits aren't

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