Plastic bags
Sir, — As responsible manufacturers we hasten to agree with your correspondent, A. R. Vaughan, and the Banks Peninsula Committee of the Plunket Society, when jthey criticise the misuse of plastic rubbish bags. However, your correspondent appears to regard our product in isolation from other “dangerous” items to which small children can be exposed. As the father of four children, I consider the cover over dry-cleaned garments a greater hazard to youngsters . . . and the Health Department agreed by requiring a warning notice to be printed on them. If the parents your correspondent writes about use plastic rubbish bags as toys, then they are indeed looking for trouble, but no more trouble than they would have with paper rubbish bags. Although wellmeaning and genuine, your correspondent has. like others, become emotional over a matter which only! needs clear thinking, and! proper child training. — Yours, etc., T. H. DUSTON. Development Manager Mainguard Packaging Ltd. April 8, 1975.
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Press, Volume CXV, Issue 33814, 10 April 1975, Page 12
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