On 04/06/2014 18:13, news wrote:
On 04/06/2014 16:32, Broadback wrote:
On 04/06/2014 16:07, Rick Hughes wrote:
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.

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 had the change a couple of years back in Wales .... makes total
sense, avoids hundreds of thousands of carrier bags going into landfill.

We just use "Bag for Life" and take them with us to shop.



I am not normally a fan of the Yanks, but why cannot our supermarkets
used paper sacks into which you can pack your shopping as they do?

I have seen an argument (not sure how valid it is) that paper bags are
even worse than plastic for the environment since they are much heavier
to transport in bulk (use more diesel etc)

They also decompose to generate methane in landfill, unless they are
burnt, which at least has the benefit of not releasing any fossil carbon
into the atmosphere.

I'm not 100% sure, but I think they also use more energy and make more
pollution in the manufacturing process.

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Tciao for Now!

John.