Can I just add a point. I don’t think taxing consumers will put them off making a purchase. Manufacturers should be the ones making the change, as often as consumers we have no choice but to buy something with plastic.
Why can’t we go back to glass bottles, muslin cloths for cheeses, no prepackaged fruit & veg? That’s not a consumers fault. That’s completely on the manufacture.
Perhaps opting to fine corporations that create the most plastic waste would be a better move. For example say the council cleans up an area (like top of the world gharghur). It should be noted how much crap from which brands is not recycled or just tossed into the bushes and the local reps for those companies get a nice fine in the mail. Soon enough they’ll sort out the types of packaging they give consumers.
Useless taxing companies for using plastic. At the end of the day, the citizen will suffer as companies would just increase the prices.
It’s the education that needs to be changed in this country. Yes, it’s true that comparing to other countries, we tend to use less plastic when it comes to supermarket products (at least we don’t bag bananas). But the mentality and approach is still a bit shitty.
The garbage collector in my locality usually forgets to pick up the organic garbage. A day later, they just pick it up and throw it together with the black ones. Citizens were “demanded” to start separating the organic, when (allegedly) the machinery to process the organic garbage was non-existent for more than a year (allegedly).
We are also encouraged to recycle. But Greenpak, or who ever is in charge, do not care if recycling is collected. Last year I spent every Tuesday for 10 weeks phoning them and informing them that it was not getting collected. Their answer was always “We will collect them next Tuesday”. On Wednesday the garbage collector comes and takes the recycling with him.
They had to introduce the recycling water bottle machines, or whatever they are called, but they still didn’t do anything. At my place of work, recycling is not encouraged, as the cleaners are strict on just sorting out the black bin because “ahna nahdmu ghal paga biss”.
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Can I just add a point. I don’t think taxing consumers will put them off making a purchase. Manufacturers should be the ones making the change, as often as consumers we have no choice but to buy something with plastic.
Why can’t we go back to glass bottles, muslin cloths for cheeses, no prepackaged fruit & veg? That’s not a consumers fault. That’s completely on the manufacture.
Perhaps opting to fine corporations that create the most plastic waste would be a better move. For example say the council cleans up an area (like top of the world gharghur). It should be noted how much crap from which brands is not recycled or just tossed into the bushes and the local reps for those companies get a nice fine in the mail. Soon enough they’ll sort out the types of packaging they give consumers.
Useless taxing companies for using plastic. At the end of the day, the citizen will suffer as companies would just increase the prices.
It’s the education that needs to be changed in this country. Yes, it’s true that comparing to other countries, we tend to use less plastic when it comes to supermarket products (at least we don’t bag bananas). But the mentality and approach is still a bit shitty.
The garbage collector in my locality usually forgets to pick up the organic garbage. A day later, they just pick it up and throw it together with the black ones. Citizens were “demanded” to start separating the organic, when (allegedly) the machinery to process the organic garbage was non-existent for more than a year (allegedly).
We are also encouraged to recycle. But Greenpak, or who ever is in charge, do not care if recycling is collected. Last year I spent every Tuesday for 10 weeks phoning them and informing them that it was not getting collected. Their answer was always “We will collect them next Tuesday”. On Wednesday the garbage collector comes and takes the recycling with him.
They had to introduce the recycling water bottle machines, or whatever they are called, but they still didn’t do anything. At my place of work, recycling is not encouraged, as the cleaners are strict on just sorting out the black bin because “ahna nahdmu ghal paga biss”.
Kollox kontra naghmlu.