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January 26, 2008

It's the ecology, stupid

Poles are slowly realising that plastic bags are an unsightly, long-lasting non-biodegradable blot on the landscape - no, sorry. They're realising that a cheap PR buck can be made by pretending to be concerned about the environment.

Spotted on a typical plastic bag from a multi-national supermarket company operating in Poland: "This bag is environment friendly." The geniuses in Head Office have discovered that a bag - even a plastic one - can be used more than once.

Posted by hgrodsk at January 26, 2008 12:13 PM

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