{"id":2349,"date":"2015-10-07T22:56:23","date_gmt":"2015-10-07T22:56:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/?p=2349"},"modified":"2015-10-07T22:57:12","modified_gmt":"2015-10-07T22:57:12","slug":"plastic-bag-ballinamuck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/plastic-bag-ballinamuck\/","title":{"rendered":"Plastic Bag: Ballinamuck"},"content":{"rendered":"

Walking in to the village of Ballinamuck last year, I saw a lone plastic bag blowing in the street. A once more common sight thanks to our tax is less common today. But are we greener? We bin to bale, which is then exported, often to be burned on beaches in India and West Africa, if not dumped overboard out at sea. The amount of energy used to transport these, and the way they are disposed means it would have been far more environmental and less harmful to nature to have them all blowing about as the last of their kind was as I walked past it on the way to the shop on a Saturday evening…<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It blew around on an empty street
\nThe black and white dog barked as I pass
\nHeading to the shop on a Saturday night
\nWonder is there an evening mass
\nNot that I planned as such to go
\nIf there was, I had shopping on my mind
\nAs I returned back to my cottage
\nThe image of that bag in the wind was on my mind.<\/p>\n

I saw it not as a dancer
\nAs some of an artistic mind might
\nBut I thought of it as a rarity
\nOnce more common was the sight
\nI thought of the advances we have made
\nIn our efforts to be green, the modern crusade
\nAnd smiled at the thought of how much we think
\nAnd how little progress in that direction we have made.<\/p>\n

The other bags that should be blowing around the street
\nGot binned, in colour coded bins as advised,
\nCollected and baled, to be exported abroad
\nHow little green the solution few have realized.
\nSomewhere on an open beach, maybe in Bombay
\nThe bale is burned by peasents, toxic fumes in an Indian sky
\nThat we have made progress in recycling we fool ourselves
\nOnce more conned by a capitalistic lie.<\/p>\n

Reference:<\/p>\n

The other side of the debate on plastic bags (Canada)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

\"To
To earn a living a priest burnes western plastics for a recylcing company at the mouth of the Ganges. Image: Getty – Credit:\u00a0SANJAY KANOJIA<\/a> \/ Stringer<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Walking in to the village of Ballinamuck last year, I saw a lone plastic bag blowing in the street. A once more common sight thanks to our tax is less common today. But are we greener? 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