Talk:Plastic bag/Archives/2015

Data in section"Use of plastic bags internationally"

I doubt the number given in this section, especially the data of China. Though Chinese goverment tried to reduce the use of plastic bags, flea markets (common in China) provide them for free, and typically an average civil in less developed areas uses 2~3 plastic bags a day. People in well-developed area use less bags. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 120.210.161.227 (talk) 08:19, 14 February 2015 (UTC)

merge?

It has been suggested that this article be merged into plastic shopping bag. No - Plastic bags can be of many different forms, only one of which is a single-use plastic shopping bag. For example a Flexible intermediate bulk container is a plastic bag with little in common with the thin single-use bag you might use at a grocery store. An ostomy bag is also a plastic bag, very different in construction and use. The two articles are different and need to be kept separate. Pkgx (talk) 17:06, 18 February 2015 (UTC)

• • There is no support for a merger. I have removed the merge tag. Pkgx (talk) 22:58, 6 May 2015 (UTC)

Environmental Issues

I'm new at doing anything w/ Wikipedia pages besides reading them, but W(who)TF is ARPITA SINGH? Apparently this person authored these sentences under the 'Plastic shopping bags' heading part of the article:

"Its wrong to use them and they harm the environment also. So I hope that now you all will stop using it and will regreat it." Aside from bad grammar and poor spelling, these are just opinions and not factual information statements and really should not be here.Skyskier (talk) 04:57, 25 June 2015 (UTC)

I don't think it's entirely appropriate that Rlsheehan removed the Environmental Issues section on 14 April 2007 claiming that it was "redundant information which is on other linked page". This seems to me to gloss over the issue. I would restore the text from the previous version, but it's mostly unreferenced. Even if the issue is localized to plastic shopping bags, some mention of these issues on this page would be appropriate if only to redirect readers looking for the environmental aspects of plastic bags. --Jrsnbarn 16:01, 16 April 2007 (UTC)

April 19, 2007 Improvements have been offered to make this a more informative and balanced article for readers. Some poeple, however, only want to promulgate their single political view. Please stop. RLSheehan — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rlsheehan (talk • contribs) 16:00, 19 April 2007

Rlsheehan, I think it's fair for this article to offer a section on Disposal, and don't believe that adding this section was 'vandalism' as you called it in your edit summary. In the process of deleting the Disposal section, you have duplicated a couple of statements regarding biodegradable bags and added some unsupported statements. I don't believe that there needs to be an edit war here, so can you concede that disposal is a legitimate issue that should be addressed in this article?— Preceding unsigned comment added by Jrsnbarn (talk • contribs) 05:54, 20 April 2007‎

Readers are told to see other main articles regarding plastic trash bags and plastic grocery bags. This article should focus mostly on bags used as packages for food, grass seed, beverages, etc. Certainly proper disposal of packaging is important but not a point to dominate other information. There are already linked articles on recyling and solid waste questions. R L Sheehan April 20, 07— Preceding unsigned comment added by Rlsheehan (talk • contribs) 02:36, 21 April 2007‎

While this article is generally much improved, as it is currently written, it gives far too little attention to the environmental issues related to plastic bags. It is not enough to say that this is covered in other articles. The normal practice in for sub-articles is to give a short summary of the issue in the main article. Sunray 16:24, 28 July 2007 (UTC)