Bag safety
The Christchurch City Council works and traffic committee will seek information on the safety of the council’s blue plastic rubbish bags.
The committee decided yesterday to ask the Department of Health and the Consumers’ Institute for details about the bags. A truck driver recently saw one of the bags in the middle of Breezes Road, and decided to straddle it with his vehicle, the committee was told.
At the last moment, he saw it move. Inside was a two-year-old child who had decided to use it as camouflage while crawling across the street. As well as the suffocation danger from plastic bags, it seemed that their colour was attractive to children, the committee chairman (Cr P. D. Dunbar) said. Mr P. G. Secular, the city engineer, said the thickness of the plastic bags was too great for them to be sucked against the face and cause suffocation.
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Press, Volume CXV, Issue 33814, 10 April 1975, Page 14
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