Comments on: Exit Plastic Bags, Enter Marketing http://ecopreneurist.com/2008/04/18/exit-plastic-bags-enter-marketing/ Green & Sustainable Business Ventures: For Entrepreneurs & Investors Tue, 22 May 2012 15:40:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: My Obama Yard Sign is a Union-Made, Recyclable Plastic Bag : Red, Green, and Blue http://ecopreneurist.com/2008/04/18/exit-plastic-bags-enter-marketing/comment-page-1/#comment-6695 My Obama Yard Sign is a Union-Made, Recyclable Plastic Bag : Red, Green, and Blue Wed, 10 Sep 2008 08:29:05 +0000 http://ecopreneurist.com/2008/04/18/exit-plastic-bags-enter-marketing/#comment-6695 [...] my plastic bag Obama sign is not just any old plastic bag banned throughout the world for shoppers, but it is a union-made, recyclable bag. This bag proudly displays the union USWA label local 3210, [...] [...] my plastic bag Obama sign is not just any old plastic bag banned throughout the world for shoppers, but it is a union-made, recyclable bag. This bag proudly displays the union USWA label local 3210, [...]

]]> By: Gardener http://ecopreneurist.com/2008/04/18/exit-plastic-bags-enter-marketing/comment-page-1/#comment-1258 Gardener Sat, 19 Apr 2008 10:42:25 +0000 http://ecopreneurist.com/2008/04/18/exit-plastic-bags-enter-marketing/#comment-1258 Jeff Stier didn't quite get the message -- the idea is to bring your own bag w/you when you shop. That would reduce the need for paper bags and your worry about roaches. Jeff Stier didn’t quite get the message — the idea is to bring your own bag w/you when you shop. That would reduce the need for paper bags and your worry about roaches.

]]> By: jeff stier http://ecopreneurist.com/2008/04/18/exit-plastic-bags-enter-marketing/comment-page-1/#comment-1234 jeff stier Fri, 18 Apr 2008 16:28:33 +0000 http://ecopreneurist.com/2008/04/18/exit-plastic-bags-enter-marketing/#comment-1234 You are right, as you wrote, "There is nothing wrong with green marketing, as long as it is truly green." But banning plastic bags may not be so green. As I suggested in my piece in the New York Post: <a href="http://www.nypost.com/seven/04162008/postopinion/opedcolumnists/paper_bags__roach_city_106774.htm" rel="nofollow">PAPER BAGS: ROACH CITY WHY LATEST 'GREEN' GAMBIT BACKFIRES</a> -- Beware the law of unintended consequences. You are right, as you wrote,

“There is nothing wrong with green marketing, as long as it is truly green.”

But banning plastic bags may not be so green. As I suggested in my piece in the New York Post:

PAPER BAGS: ROACH CITY
WHY LATEST ‘GREEN’ GAMBIT BACKFIRES

– Beware the law of unintended consequences.

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