| Another option would be to provide bags to customers, either of resistant plastic or fabric (with business propaganda). Customers will pay a fee to use the bags to carry their bought products to their cars or even home. If the bag is returned they collect the fee back. The shop that provide the bags can get besides a free publicity with that bags, get some additional income providing publicity space for other companies (For example for manufacturers of the products sold in the shop) or using it to announce special offers to attract more customers. Similar strategy is used in some EU countries. When you buy a drink you pay with the price and additional fee, which is returned when you bring the bottle or can to a recycling collection center in the same or different shop were you bought it. I think this last environmental friendly policy coming soon to CH too About cars, I wonder why CH car manufactures are not pushing hybrid plug in cars more intensively. Given that many of car movements in CH are urban,the great concentration of traffic which produces pollution and the demands of foreign gas they produce, a plug in hybrid car could be a good solution. Plug in option in cars allows to diversify the sources of energy used to power the cars. Electricity could come from locally generated sources: nuclear, coal, hydroelectric and renewable energies. A greater number of car running total or partially under electric power while circulating in the cities would lower significantly the gas emissions produced by car circulations, and also reducing the consumption of imported gas. Plug in centers would be installed at home, company and public garages, where the battery will be charged while the car is parked there. Such hybrid cars could also be optionally equipped with removable battery packs. While circulating in the city the car can be equipped with a battery pack that uses more of the available space in car's trunk. When moving on long trips, well beyond range of electric batteries, and where also more place is needed in car's trunk for baggages, the additional batteries could be removed and the car will run mostly or alone with gas engine. Additional battery packs shape and connections could be standardized. In this way they could be also be available in gas stations (or electric power stations) for any cars to change them for newly recharged ones. One usage would be the following. On a long trip to another city, a car owner can leave the additional battery pack on the "electric power station" to be recharged and used by other cars later. After the long trip, when the car approaches its destination, a new additional battery pack could be installed for using during the trips inside destination city. Maybe a similar solution could also be applied for small trucks. |
Gas Price and Plastic Bags