"Sainsbury's launches eco-friendly milk bags and jugs in multi-million pound move, with Tesco set to follow suit"
"Supermarket giant Sainsbury's is to roll out "eco-friendly" milk bags and jugs across its entire product range in a multi-million pound move to reduce the carbon footprint of milk consumption."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/aug/11/milk-bottle-sainsburys-environment
So the supermarket is trying to be more green right? They have nothing to gain from this right? Wrong!
Sure it's great that some stores are taking the imitative to go green, but that is not the reason for any company to go green. There is an agenda behind it! The government wants people to get into the mindset of having a 'green economy', and the thing is most politicians and leaders associate anything green with global warming.The plastic bottles are not part of the problem, sure they are part of the pollution problem but ave nothing to do with climate change. In fact this entire thing has nothing to do with climate change at all, it is all just commercial!
"As well as using less packaging, the product is also cheaper. Compared with an equivalent two pint plastic bottle, milk in a bag saves Sainsbury's customers at least 6p."
I can guarantee anybody that the only reason they started carrying the new milk bags is because of the cost, and if it wasn't cheaper they wouldn't have put it out.
The thing that really bugs me is that there needs to be some sort of financial reason to do things these days, people always expect something in return. Very few people today try to help our planet out of genuinely caring about our environment, and not just going green because it's the "hip" thing to do.
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