On 04/06/2014 18:01, Bob Minchin wrote:
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.



So presumably you buy bin liners and put those into landfill?

We have a holder specially designed for the supermarket carrier bags so
ours get re-used for waste at minimal cost.

Is this legislation really key to the UK survival from its economic
problems FFS

No, it's a sop to the Green lobby. There are,though, some reasonably
good reasons for bags to be charged for.

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Tciao for Now!

John.