In message , Jethro_uk
writes
On Wed, 04 Jun 2014 13:20:29 +0100, 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.

The bags we collect get used at least twice. Once to take goods from
the supermarket and once as pedal bin liners.

Where I live the council gives me plastic bags to put my rubbish in. I
use two per week, one clear bag for paper etc, and one black bag for
general rubbish. I am sure that the amount of plastic in these bags far
exceeds that in the supermarket bags.

Do we really need this legislation?

We have 2 collapsible boxes which we carry in the car. Come shop time, we
unfold one, put it in trolley, load, unload onto conveyor belt, and
reload at the other end.

I can load the box faster than the checkout operator can scan (they have
started an *every* item must be scanned regime at Sainsburys).
Additionally I have noticed that before, when they would throw stuff down
the conveyor as fast as possible in the hope of causing a mini pile up,
when I start loading, they deliberately switch the conveyor off.
Remember the days before bar codes when they had to pick up each item
look at the price labels and key in the value?
--
bert