Comments on: Goedzak by Waarmakers

By: Danyel

Danyel — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 03:00:00 +0000

In my area, people post ads on CL for free items on the curb. It works great. We’ve put out lots of things and they’ve all been picked up within 24 hours. We have a rule that if it doesn’t go by X day, we’ll take it over to a thrift store. One man’s trash is another man’s treasure.

By: Mary Anne enriquez

Mary Anne enriquez — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 19:27:00 +0000

I am in the USA. We already have enough unwanted plastic bags littering the streets, along with every other kind of trash. What does it take to manufacture these bags Petroleum? The energy utilised in the creation of the bags and the bright coloured inks is cause for worry from environmental standpoints. Are they compostable? The bags themselves are so problematic that it environmentally negates any good that could come out of the idea.

Donate your unwanted to a charity shop. Or sell at a garage or car boot sale/flea market. I donate to charity shops all the time. The point is, people at least in the USA are always leaving crap they do not want on the curbside. Sometimes its taken, but often times, the bag’s are opened and the contents are scattered all over the street. Then the rain, the wind, take it all further along. Animals gnaw through and contents get dirty.

I ask also, if a person wants only half the stuff, are they going to carry the whole bag along with them? I doubt it. Not here in the USA. Perhaps it’s different in your big cities.

I feel efforts need to be in place to easily recycle and donate, but leaving it in a plastic bag on the curb somewhere is laziness that will ultimately pose countless environmental problems.

By: firstkitten

firstkitten — Mon, 14 Jan 2013 05:54:00 +0000

It happens all over Perth, Australia, where I live: if you want to get rid of something, you put it close to the road verge. In ten years I think I have only had one or two items (of dozens) not taken.

What I do like about this is that it allows for smaller items to be left out, to be seen and to be protected from the rain (not that we get a lot here).

By: Leo

Leo — Sun, 13 Jan 2013 20:08:00 +0000

Willing to pay for these bags, but where can I buy them?

By: Evon

Evon — Sun, 13 Jan 2013 14:50:00 +0000

So lets create more plastic bags so that we can get rid of our crap!? Where’s the eco-logic there? This world can live without another plastic bag, no matter how “cool”.