Michael Reddell • Sep 15, 2018 •
That’s the title of my former colleague Ian Harrison’s response to the government’s consultative document on getting rid of (some types of) plastic bags. The consultation itself closed yesterday, but nobody supposes the consultation itself was remotely serious – the irrational ban is going to happen anyway. Having dug fairly deeply into the material used to support/underpin the consultative … Read More
Michael Reddell • Aug 13, 2018 •
There is a reason why we do not let primary school children make policy or vote. They are children, precious and growing but prone to all the enthusiasms of children, easily influenced, and not responsible (as taxpayers or anything else) for their expressed preferences. And yet, as the Prime Minister was reported, it seemed that the fact that lots … Read More
Eric Crampton • Aug 13, 2018 •
The Ministry for the Environment’s consultation document on banning plastic bags is out. The key table, or at least the most interesting table, is in the appendix. It shows, from a Danish study, the number of times a reusable shopping bag would have to be reused to have less environmental impact than current disposable bags. Source: Ministry for … Read More
Guest Author • Jul 19, 2018 •
Stephanie B. Borrelle, Auckland University of Technology Plastic pollution has the potential to cause the worst damage to seabirds in the seas around Aotearoa New Zealand, where many of them come to feed and breed. Aotearoa boasts the greatest diversity of seabirds in the world. Of the 360 global seabird species, 86 breed here and 37 are … Read More
Guest Author • Sep 06, 2011 •
by Robin Tennant-Wood, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Business and Government at University of Canberra From today, plastic bags are banned in the Northern Territory. The ACT will follow suit in November: in 2009 the ACT abandoned its 14-year old ’No Waste by 2010’ strategy and replaced it with a ban on plastic shopping bags. While campaigns against plastic bags … Read More