Environmental harmony is part of the WorldWalker brothers’ peace-concept. You cannot really live in peace with your neighbors without living in peace and harmony with your environment.
by FERENC IVANICS
Yesterday I went to buy milk at a supermarket. It was a challenge to find “plain” milk among the ones enriched with calcium and vitamins, but finally, I managed to grab one, so I walked to the cash desk.
Tere was some trouble with the credit card of the Lady in front of me, so I had plenty of time to have a look around. Right next to the cash counter there was a cardboard box full of plastic bags, with a panel hanging above it, apparently with some environmental protection related text on it. I went to have a closer look and I realized that I had already seen this before on an advertizing, “plastic” bags made from potato starch. Its texture is slightly different than that of the traditional plastic bags, but the obvious benefit is that these bags do compost. You can throw it to the organic trash pile and it will disintegrate. Probably the dye on the bag is organic as well.
So I had two choices: take a traditional plastic bag for free, or pay 5 Euro cents for the biodegradable one. I’m a gardener, so I chose the compostable bag. I hope people won’t interpret the benefits of the potato starch bags as: “I can throw it away anywhere”...
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