On Wed, 04 Jun 2014 16:43:02 +0100, Tim Streater wrote:

In article , 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.

We already do that *without* the legislation.

BTW, is this going to apply to bags used by supermarkets for their
on-line shopping deliveries? We get one a month from Sainsbury's and
they usually use 10-15 bags - many more than needed actually. That could
add a quid to that shop.

Ocado collect all of theirs for recycling.



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