Creating a shared vision by uniting local stakeholders to tackle plastic bag consumption

Reducing Plastic Bag Consumption: a Community Approach to Social Marketing

Traditionally, CSR discourse has focused on multinational corporations. However, the present work’s starting point was the following question: can consumer-leaders and responsible SMEs help foster societal change toward sustainable consumption? By drawing on the literature about ethical consumption and community-based social marketing, we suggest community leaders and small organizations can pl...

The Irish Plastic Bag

“It was sad to see the empty bag Blown about like a dirty rag” A Summer Morning Walk By Patrick Kavanagh (1904-1967) Introduction: In March 2002, the Irish Government introduced a 15 Euro cent environmental levy on all shopping plastic bags, previously provided free of charge to consumers at points of sale. The motivation for such was primarily to reduce the consumption of plastic bags and the ...

Plastic bag clip discovered in partial colectomy accompanying proposal for phylogenic plastic bag clip classification.

A plastic bag clip was incidentally found anchored in the mucosa of a partial colectomy specimen 2.6 cm proximal to a ruptured diverticulum for which the patient, a mentally retarded, diabetic, 58-year-old man, underwent surgery. Over 20 cases of accidental ingestion of plastic bag clips have been published. Known complications include small bowel perforation, obstruction, dysphagia, gastrointe...

Two cases of death due to plastic bag suffocation.

Deaths due to plastic bag suffocation or plastic bag asphyxia are not reported in Malaysia. In the West many suicides by plastic bag asphyxia, particularly in the elderly and those who are chronically and terminally ill, have been reported. Accidental deaths too are not uncommon in the West, both among small children who play with shopping bags and adolescents who are solvent abusers. Another w...

Co-creating value in research: stakeholders' perspectives.