Greens announce plan to turn trash into cash

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1. Bearded Git 1

   27 August 2017 at 12:15 pm

   Brilliant. The Greens ahead of the pack as always.

   The Nats have been completely useless re plastic bag levies. (It must be a company owned by of one of their mates that make them)

   Wait for pale green Labour to copy these real Green policies next week.
2. Roy 2

   27 August 2017 at 12:39 pm

   Solid policy. No excuse now for Hooton and the Blowhards to criticise them now. Even English praised them for having green policy.
3. Bill 3

   27 August 2017 at 1:29 pm

   The phase out of plastic packaging is going to be…interesting.

   Turn a mind to all the supposed “security”features built into various product packaging these days where the “security” is plastic based. (The shrink wrap, the plastic seals, the ‘impossible to bloody well open’ wrapping on gizmos, gadgets and consumables that supposedly ‘authenticates’ and ‘protects’ the contents of the package…).

   Think of all the thousands upon thousands of pallets that are shrink wrapped at warehouse locations in gawd knows how many kms of plastic each and every day in to afford them a degree of stability for transport.

   What about the potential for sliced bread in the supermarket to become just a memory? (No bad thing).

   And the millions of daft wee plastic bags at the loose produce isle and the vegetable isle ….all gone? (I’m all for it).

   I’d expect at least some industry to be “on board” to some greater or lesser extent – right up to the point where they have to invest dollars in re-configuring production and packaging techniques as well as methods of distribution.
   • One Anonymous Bloke 3.1

     27 August 2017 at 1:49 pm

     Cellulose-based packaging.
   • Macro 3.2

     27 August 2017 at 1:59 pm

     You know it is possible, even today ,to buy most of your goods without plastic. I carry my own shopping bag and my own reused paper bags to put those vegetables in. Our local Bin Inn sells organic potatoes in paper bags since our home grown ones have run out. I don’t buy food in plastic containers but choose the food that is in glass containers instead. I buy our meat in usable cartons which I supply to the local butcher. As for bread – we are fortunate to have the most amazing local baker in the country and the sour dough light Rye he produces every day is placed in a paper bag, as we have a chat. Rubbish – what little we end up with – is placed in paper bags.
     I echo what you say about the impossible to bloody open plastic around gizmos! why the F**k do we need that! On buying stuff like that my wife demands the shop remove it and dispose of the stuff themselves! If we all did this they might begin to tell the suppliers about thinking differently as to how they presented their wares.
     • Sans Cle 3.2.1

       27 August 2017 at 2:08 pm

       Well done Macro. I aspire to be as conscientious as you. I do what I can, but can do better. I was also inspired by this zero waste couple: https://www.rubbishfree.co.nz
4. Stuart Munro 4

   27 August 2017 at 1:43 pm

   Great move by the Greens phasing out the supermarket bag – the plastic bag tax should never be more than transitional – it’s supposed to change the way things are done.

   Left to itself industry seems to turn incrementally browner, there needs to be a conscious effort to do things more sustainably.
5. marty mars 5

   27 August 2017 at 1:47 pm

   Good policy – I’d start with some banning initially to set the tone and offer no illusions. I’d also price out via whatever mechanism the excessive packaging used for so many things including veges. Yep we may not have available every goddam fruit and vege from everywhere – im okay with that.
6. eco Maori/kiwi 6

   27 August 2017 at 2:19 pm

   Yes we will go back to paper bags and all natural products to replace Plastic.
   This policy will help grow our forest create closed loop system for paper and provide more employment for New Zealanders. And help clean up our environment. The Policy will help limited the influence the OIL BARONS have on our economy
   • CoroDale 6.1

     28 August 2017 at 8:02 am

     Oh shit, I actually agree with the Bot. Sorry Greens, but this is such small shit. Really turns my stomach at local political gatherings to hear people talk about plastic bags while Quantitative Easing prints money to bail out the insolvent private banks who are buying our houses on 1% interest rates, while we sleep in cars. (Anyone who has ever lived in a car should know how good plastic bags are.)

     But if it wins votes in Hobbiton, go for it!

     Hey, in Amsterdam the metro runs from the electricity produced by burning mixed plastic.

     And here in Germany we (well, I do, perhaps they don’t) busy our minds with all the refuges walking the streets.

     Anyway, there are probably facts about dolphin deaths or something that I don’t know.

     Oh, I love plastic bags, and reuse them till they are too dirty. From a young age my Mum had taught me to wash them and hang them out on the washing line…

     Sorry guys, I’ll vote Green all the same.
7. xanthe 7

   27 August 2017 at 2:25 pm

   unbelievable ! the greens are going green! The only plausible explanation is the deposing of met and her close crew.

   I will watch this space carefully and would love to vote for them in 2020.
   • alwyn 7.1

     27 August 2017 at 5:45 pm

     “unbelievable ! the greens are going green”

     It is a rather unlikely situation. Unfortunately the Metiria mob managed to take the most useful of their MPs over the side with her.
     I think that the dumping of the principled Kennedy Graham will turn out to be the final nail in it’s coffin for this lot.
     Perhaps we can get a genuine environmental party next time around, who can co-operate with either of the major parties, rather than a hard left bunch of anarchists.

     If you are a Labour supporter you will greatly prefer the collapse and removal of the Green Party from Parliament. Winston Peters can easily work with either National or Labour. He would never have played third fiddle to the Greens.
     Their vanishing from the scene greatly increases the chances of a Labour led Government I think.

     Just give Winston, and a couple of his mates, the baubles of office and promise him a knighthood at the same level as John Key and he will be putty in Godfather Grant Robertson’s hands.
     • Carolyn_nth 7.1.1

       27 August 2017 at 5:58 pm

       Green politics does not translate to environment-only politics, much as some on the right would like it to be. And keeping beating that drum, doesn’t make it so.

       Marama Davidson, second on the GP list, is very much commited to combating poverty and other social justice is – as part of a politics that incorporates environmental issues.

       Wikipedia on Green Politics:

       Green politics (also known as ecopolitics[1]) is a political ideology that aims to create an ecologically sustainable society rooted in environmentalism, nonviolence, social justice, and grassroots democracy.[2]
       • CoroDale 7.1.1.1

         28 August 2017 at 8:55 am

         Lets all keep cool, I think Lwyn is simply hyper-sensitive to the fluoride in her town supply.

         (Other than her, it’s only Greens, Bots and Trolls reading this tread right?)

         This whole left/right conflict also does my stomach in. When they ask at a meeting. Are we left or are we center (“er” their grammar, not mine)?

         Well, I’ve read the economic policy forwards and backwards. (Obviously voters don’t understands, and it’s okay to say in front of the bots, they probably wrote half the policy anyway) But we really do fall slightly to the right. Oh, labour also, I assume I’m not deluded.

         Weren’t the remaining True Lefties exterminated back in the 70’s? Surely the leftovers where knocked off by the end of the 90’s. Isn’t it only the neo-Bolsheviks who are permitted to continue this modern neo-left movement?

         With the orthodox neo-liberal schooling complete across the whole population, they now enjoy letting the Greens float around 15% just to make things look kinda democratic.

         (sorry, that honesty was just half a bottle of wine)
         • alwyn 7.1.1.1.1

           28 August 2017 at 3:35 pm

           Only HALF a bottle of wine?
           I suspect it was probably a Nebuchadnezzar.
           “in her town”.
           And “she” is a “he” by the way.
     • AB 7.1.2

       27 August 2017 at 6:22 pm

       I’m sure we’re all noticing how the hatred of the Greens goes incandescent and stratospheric whenever there’s a possibility of them getting near power. Perhaps they are the most credible threat to the status quo – hence the reaction? I’m considering switching to them – thanks for the unintended guidance.
       • Incognito 7.1.2.1

         27 August 2017 at 7:01 pm

         Perhaps they are the most credible threat to the status quo – hence the reaction?

         They are the only credible threat to the status quo – hence the reaction!
     • Draco T Bastard 7.1.3

       28 August 2017 at 3:09 am

       RWNJ trying to give advice to the Left on how to crash and burn – again.
     • CoroDale 7.1.4

       28 August 2017 at 8:11 am

       Hey, that Knighthood was the Queen’s way of saying, “We liberally let you destroy a country, now be good, or we destroy you.”
8. Siobhan 8

   27 August 2017 at 6:59 pm

   I hate to side track the conversation about a brilliant set of green Party policies, but I’m curious about the 13 year old tesco bag for life claim from Mana Green.
   As far as I can see the ‘Bag for Life’ is a new thing, being rolled out now after a limited 10 week trial. It would be interesting to know about the bags from 13 years ago that are still going strong.

   https://www.tescoplc.com/news/news-releases/2017/tesco-replaces-single-use-carrier-bags-with-bag-for-life/
9. mosa 9

   28 August 2017 at 12:09 am

   FANGREENTASTIC !!!!
10. Sparky 10

    28 August 2017 at 8:54 am

    Good stuff. Plastic has become a real menace and whilst it bio degrades some of it also emits nasty chemicals that poison the ocean.

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