"John Williamson" wrote in message
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On 04/06/2014 13:20, Michael Chare wrote:
The government wants to introduce a charge for plastic bags. I have
never seen the point of this, it is not as if I see lots of empty bags
lying about or on beaches.

Incidentally, paper bags buried a century ago are still intact, as are
newspapers, in many dumps, and the new, improved, plastic bags that
"biodegrade" in a few months all degrade into tiny plastic spheres which
get ingested by plankton and so by other animals that eat the plankton.

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Plastic bags being made of plastic contain a high % of carbon. So if they
end up in landfill or wherever and don't degrade they act as a carbon store.
Keeping carbon out of the environment is a good thing isn't it?


mark