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OK, where can I buy carrier bags for less than 5 pence ? Our free
supply of kitchen bin bags has ended !
Simon.

Roll of 50 bags is a quid at Poundshop.

Do you do all your shopping at Poundshop?

Nope, not been there for months. It would seem that the major
retailers are now matching or getting close to their prices.
It was good fun going there though, you can get garden stuff dead
cheap.

You mean for a quid?


Amongst other decorations:
Two large plastic butterflies for a quid.
Two large plastic ladybirds for a quid.
I have six of each on the back garden fences. They have been there for
I think the past three years and visitors still admire them.


Which visitors admire them?

Friends.
Family.
Neighbours.
They have all commented on them.

Your turn:


I should imagine your neighbours visitors first comment when they visit
them is "Who the **** lives in that house with the ****e all over his
fence? - looks a right **** that does"

I would also expect your friends and familys first comment to each other
as they pull away in their car after visiting you to be "**** me - did
you see his fence? - looks a right **** that does - but I did not want to
say anything to upset him"


You imagine and expect wrongly.
I was once told that my front garden was "The best in the street".
You see Adam, I do not live on a stinking ******** council estate as you
do.
One day you just might grow a pair of balls and buy your own home. But as
you are not too intelligent I doubt that this will happen.

Best in the street my arse. Who told you it was the best - my mother's
hairdresser? Do not believe her as she is as thick as pig ****.

Did you get charged with assault when you attacked that apprentice?
Do tell us.

It was not assault and I was not charged, in fact I was never arrested. I
was invited to the police station to make a statement and the matter was
then dropped.


--
Adam

whisky-dave wrote
Rod Speed wrote
whisky-dave wrote
michael adams wrote
Tricky Dicky wrote

Wonder how they are going to police the self- service checkouts?

I can only comment on Sainsbury on this,
thus far. But they'll be hard to beat.

On the self service tills there are no notices etc. but
piles of bags stacked discreetly at the side beneath
either the input or output platform.

I brought my own crumpled up orange Sainsbury jobbies.

When starting to scan everything is as normal.

I almost always refuse to use the self scan.

More fool you.

Why,

Because its normally quicker to use the self scan,
particularly when you aren't doing a full trolley full.

I'm paying foir a service and that's what I expect not to have to do it
all myself

More fool you.

then wait for someone to OK by beer purchases,
then why the special offer won't come up.

They always come up for me.

Only when choosing to pay is a message flashed up -
a) "Have You Scanned Your Bags"

With [Yes] or [No] buttons. Nothing else.

Now presumably what this garbled message is intended
to say - and be fair they've only had around 6 months
to get this right - is "have you scanned any new Sainsbury
bags you bought today".

and is there a difernce between brought and bought.

Making this simple, if I scan the bag I paid 5p for yesterday
will I again be charged 5p for the same bag.

Previously when I reused any bag, I got 1 reward
point for reusing the bag at the manned till point.

a) if the punter had scanned their bags the machine would
already know. So obviously they haven't.

good point.

b) As any bags will by now will be full of shopping wouldn't
it be better to ask the punter to scan the bag "before"
they start.

Yes and also the larger bags are heavier and the self
service till uses weight to check on each item scanner.

Irrelevant when you select the 'I brought my own bag' icon.

So what do you do when asked

a) "Have You Scanned Your Bags"

Doesn't happen here.

With [Yes] or [No] buttons. Nothing else.

On 06/10/15 19:52, Mike Barnes wrote:
Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
I've been using decent re-usable ones for years. Keep them in the car
boot. Mainly because they are strong enough for the job. You only need
one
expensive bottle to break when a bag fails to realise the sense in this.
;-)

+1

The bags I bought eight years ago are showing no signs of giving up.

I also find it quicker and easier to transfer shopping in two or three
decent bags than a dozen flimsy ones, and stuff doesn't escape in the boot.


I must go on the lookout for some "car bags" (sure they must exist).
Something that when full, produces a square flat base which has less
tendency to fall over...

Another John wrote:
In article ,
Bill Wright wrote:

Apparently we can expect a doubling of cases of food poisoning as a
result of this stupid idea.

If this "stupid idea" reduces the number of carrier bags blowing in the
trees up to a mile from our local tip, from 000s to shall I say 00s,
then it will have been worthwhile.

It's not a stupid idea Bill: it's the only way, in the dimension of
plastic bags, of counteracting stupid people.

And BTW Bill: please, PLEASEn PUH-LEASE stop reading the Daily Mail (or
whatever tabloid you got the stupid idea, above, from).

John

I saw it in the Independent. I don't read any tabloids.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk...e-9488405.html

It was also in the Telegraph

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/heal...poisoning.html

and the BBC

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-23367268

So **** off.

Bill

In article ,
Bill Wright wrote:

Another John wrote:
And BTW Bill: please, PLEASEn PUH-LEASE stop reading the Daily Mail (or
whatever tabloid you got the stupid idea, above, from).

I saw it in the Independent. I don't read any tabloids.

Wha'?!?! You could have fooled me.
Mind -- you're a bit of Daily Mail all by your own self, aren't you?


http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk...-poisoning-thr
eat-from-the-5p-plastic-bag-charge-9488405.html
It was also in the Telegraph
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/heal...ping-bags-will
-lead-to-more-food-poisoning.html
and the BBC
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-23367268

So **** off.

Your Mum would clip your blinkin' ear for that! _What_ part of
Yorkshire are you from? We didn't learn that sort of behaviour in
Bra'ford, I can tell you! Tch!

Best wishes
John

On 10/6/2015 4:06 PM, Tim Watts wrote:
On 06/10/15 19:52, Mike Barnes wrote:
Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
I've been using decent re-usable ones for years. Keep them in the car
boot. Mainly because they are strong enough for the job. You only need
one
expensive bottle to break when a bag fails to realise the sense in this.
;-)

+1

The bags I bought eight years ago are showing no signs of giving up.

I also find it quicker and easier to transfer shopping in two or three
decent bags than a dozen flimsy ones, and stuff doesn't escape in the
boot.


I must go on the lookout for some "car bags" (sure they must exist).
Something that when full, produces a square flat base which has less
tendency to fall over...

Something like this?

http://www.lakeland.co.uk/24572/Car-Boot-Organiser

I've seen similar its elsewhere.

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OK, where can I buy carrier bags for less than 5 pence ? Our
free supply of kitchen bin bags has ended !
Simon.

Roll of 50 bags is a quid at Poundshop.

Do you do all your shopping at Poundshop?

Nope, not been there for months. It would seem that the major
retailers are now matching or getting close to their prices.
It was good fun going there though, you can get garden stuff dead
cheap.

You mean for a quid?


Amongst other decorations:
Two large plastic butterflies for a quid.
Two large plastic ladybirds for a quid.
I have six of each on the back garden fences. They have been there
for I think the past three years and visitors still admire them.


Which visitors admire them?

Friends.
Family.
Neighbours.
They have all commented on them.

Your turn:


I should imagine your neighbours visitors first comment when they visit
them is "Who the **** lives in that house with the ****e all over his
fence? - looks a right **** that does"

I would also expect your friends and familys first comment to each other
as they pull away in their car after visiting you to be "**** me - did
you see his fence? - looks a right **** that does - but I did not want
to say anything to upset him"


You imagine and expect wrongly.
I was once told that my front garden was "The best in the street".
You see Adam, I do not live on a stinking ******** council estate as you
do.
One day you just might grow a pair of balls and buy your own home. But as
you are not too intelligent I doubt that this will happen.

Best in the street my arse. Who told you it was the best - my mother's
hairdresser? Do not believe her as she is as thick as pig ****.

Several of the neighbours told me that my front garden was the best in the
street. I would not bull**** this.
As for hairdressers, I have dealt with many of them. They are all as thick
as pig****.

Did you get charged with assault when you attacked that apprentice?
Do tell us.

It was not assault and I was not charged, in fact I was never arrested. I
was invited to the police station to make a statement and the matter was
then dropped.

How shameful to have to make a statement in a police station.
There will always be another apprentice to bully.
Big tough guys from council estates like to bully apprentices. Your postings
show this.

"Rod Speed" wrote in message
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whisky-dave wrote
Rod Speed wrote
whisky-dave wrote
michael adams wrote
Tricky Dicky wrote

Wonder how they are going to police the self- service checkouts?

I can only comment on Sainsbury on this,
thus far. But they'll be hard to beat.

On the self service tills there are no notices etc. but
piles of bags stacked discreetly at the side beneath
either the input or output platform.

I brought my own crumpled up orange Sainsbury jobbies.

When starting to scan everything is as normal.

I almost always refuse to use the self scan.

More fool you.

Why,

Because its normally quicker to use the self scan,
particularly when you aren't doing a full trolley full.

I'm paying foir a service and that's what I expect not to have to do it
all myself

More fool you.

then wait for someone to OK by beer purchases,
then why the special offer won't come up.

They always come up for me.

Only when choosing to pay is a message flashed up -
a) "Have You Scanned Your Bags"

With [Yes] or [No] buttons. Nothing else.

Now presumably what this garbled message is intended
to say - and be fair they've only had around 6 months
to get this right - is "have you scanned any new Sainsbury
bags you bought today".

and is there a difernce between brought and bought.

Making this simple, if I scan the bag I paid 5p for yesterday
will I again be charged 5p for the same bag.

Previously when I reused any bag, I got 1 reward
point for reusing the bag at the manned till point.

a) if the punter had scanned their bags the machine would
already know. So obviously they haven't.

good point.

b) As any bags will by now will be full of shopping wouldn't
it be better to ask the punter to scan the bag "before"
they start.

Yes and also the larger bags are heavier and the self
service till uses weight to check on each item scanner.

Irrelevant when you select the 'I brought my own bag' icon.

So what do you do when asked

a) "Have You Scanned Your Bags"

Doesn't happen here.

With [Yes] or [No] buttons. Nothing else.

Stupid Australian.

Another John wrote
Bill Wright wrote

Apparently we can expect a doubling of cases
of food poisoning as a result of this stupid idea.

If this "stupid idea" reduces the number of carrier bags
blowing in the trees up to a mile from our local tip, from 000s

Don’t get that with our tip.

to shall I say 00s, then it will have been worthwhile.

It's not a stupid idea Bill: it's the only way, in the dimension
of plastic bags, of counteracting stupid people.

Bet the stupid people will mostly just pay for the bags
and nothing will change except that they pay a little
more for their total shop.

And BTW Bill: please, PLEASEn PUH-LEASE stop reading the Daily
Mail (or whatever tabloid you got the stupid idea, above, from).

So which rag should he be reading instead ?

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"ARW" wrote in message

Best in the street my arse. Who told you it was the best - my mother's
hairdresser? Do not believe her as she is as thick as pig ****.

Several of the neighbours told me that my front garden was the best in the
street. I would not bull**** this.
As for hairdressers, I have dealt with many of them. They are all as thick
as pig****.


Did you both spend your time counting the plastic nipples on your plastic
ladybirds?

--
Adam

Clive George wrote
whisky-dave wrote

No good to me, I guiss if you're saving the enviroment
by driving around in a car it's OK. But there's no where
on a bus I can leave bags of that size I can just manage
3 ordinary carrier bags they fit between my feet.

What's wrong with providing your own rather sturdier bag?

I'd use a rucksack,

He's an old fart, wouldn't be seen dead with one of those.

or there's the classic shopping trolley.

He doesn't like the way everyone points
and sneers when he uses one of those.

"Mr Pounder Esquire" wrote in message
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Several of the neighbours told me that my front garden was the best in
the street. I would not bull**** this.

No, but would they?

Come to that, how bad IS the rest of the street...?

Bill Wright wrote:
Another John wrote:
In article ,
Bill Wright wrote:

Apparently we can expect a doubling of cases of food poisoning as a
result of this stupid idea.

If this "stupid idea" reduces the number of carrier bags blowing in the
trees up to a mile from our local tip, from 000s to shall I say 00s,
then it will have been worthwhile.

It's not a stupid idea Bill: it's the only way, in the dimension of
plastic bags, of counteracting stupid people.

And BTW Bill: please, PLEASEn PUH-LEASE stop reading the Daily Mail (or
whatever tabloid you got the stupid idea, above, from).

John

I saw it in the Independent. I don't read any tabloids.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk...e-9488405.html

"packaged supermarket products should be entirely safe in re-used bags
and present no threat to health".

--
Mike Barnes
Cheshire, England

In article ,
Bill Wright wrote:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk...s-speech-food-
poisoning-thr
eat-from-the-5p-plastic-bag-charge-9488405.html It was also in the
Telegraph
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/heal...x-on-shopping-
bags-will
-lead-to-more-food-poisoning.html and the BBC
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-23367268

So **** off.

So, umm, how many people do you know who put loose, unwrapped raw meat or
fish into the same plastic bag as fruit etc, then reuse that bag?

Bear in mind when answering that plastic bags for raw meat and fish are
exempt from the 5p charge.

Tim Watts wrote:
On 06/10/15 19:52, Mike Barnes wrote:
Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
I've been using decent re-usable ones for years. Keep them in the car
boot. Mainly because they are strong enough for the job. You only need
one
expensive bottle to break when a bag fails to realise the sense in this.
;-)

+1

The bags I bought eight years ago are showing no signs of giving up.

I also find it quicker and easier to transfer shopping in two or three
decent bags than a dozen flimsy ones, and stuff doesn't escape in the boot.


I must go on the lookout for some "car bags" (sure they must exist).
Something that when full, produces a square flat base which has less
tendency to fall over...

If you'll accept "rectangular" I have one from Sainsburys and one from
Casino (France) which are like that. I improve the stability by using
the hooks provided in the boot, which I believe are also known as "curry
hooks", though mine have never been used for take-away food.

--
Mike Barnes
Cheshire, England

On 06/10/15 19:52, Mike Barnes wrote:

The bags I bought eight years ago are showing no signs of giving up.

I also find it quicker and easier to transfer shopping in two or three
decent bags than a dozen flimsy ones, and stuff doesn't escape in the boot.


Reusable bags are fine if you shop by car. They are even ok if you
deliberately set out to walk to the shops. But if you shop on the way
home etc you tend to find yourself in a shop without a bag.

--
DJC
(–€Ì¿Ä¹Ì¯–€Ì¿ Ì¿)

In message , Mike Barnes
writes

Our council uses wheelie bins (four different ones), and I've not heard
anything about tied plastic bags for dust. Does "dust" mean from the
vacuum cleaner or from the fire grate?

We have two wheelie bins, one for recycle stuff, and one for the rest.
Dust from the vac and the fire go straight in the 'other' bin. I hose
it out, now and again. The bin, not the fire.
--
Graeme

DJC wrote
Mike Barnes wrote

The bags I bought eight years ago are showing no signs of giving up.

I also find it quicker and easier to transfer shopping in two or three
decent bags than a dozen flimsy ones, and stuff doesn't escape in the
boot.

Reusable bags are fine if you shop by car. They are even ok if you
deliberately set out to walk to the shops. But if you shop on the way home
etc you tend to find yourself in a shop without a bag.

So you get to pay the 5p if you dont have enough of
a clue to keep a stash of bags at work and put one in
your pocket as you leave for home. Hardly the end of
civilisation as we know it.

Not that I think it makes any sense to charge for bags.

On Tue, 06 Oct 2015 17:59:41 +0100, Clive George wrote:

On 06/10/2015 09:53, whisky-dave wrote:

No good to me, I guiss if you're saving the enviroment by driving around in a car it's OK. But there's no where on a bus I can leave bags of that size I can just manage 3 ordinary carrier bags they fit between my feet.

What's wrong with providing your own rather sturdier bag? I'd use a
rucksack, or there's the classic shopping trolley.

I use a rucksack as sometimes the bus fails to turn up so it's then 2 miles
home - not fun with carrier bags.
There's sometimes a comment when I occasionally reuse a C&A bag - from
people old enough to have shopped there.
--
Peter.
The gods will stay away
whilst religions hold sway

On 06/10/2015 20:22, Clive George wrote:
On 06/10/2015 19:53, Martin Brown wrote:
On 06/10/2015 17:57, Clive George wrote:
On 06/10/2015 08:51, Martin Brown wrote:

Since almost every local authority insists that you cannot put dust
in a
dustbin without putting it in a tied plastic bag the whole concept of
the supermarket bag charging scheme is deeply flawed.

How many LAs use wheelie bins these days? They don't need a tied plastic
bag.

Tell that to mine which slapped such a notice on my wheelie bin.

http://www.cravendc.gov.uk/article/6...-domestic-bins


There's my LA's page on the matter.

Got the equivalent for your LA?

They don't appear to have one. They will however put a sticker on your
bin warning that they will not collect it if dust/ash is not bagged.

If yours says tied plastic bags, the next question is which is more
popular. You did say "almost every local authority" - did you actually
mean "my local authority"?

All the ones I know insist on bagging dust and ash which spans
Newcastle, Manchester and North Yorkshire to names specific ones.

It is interesting to note the wide variation of colours of bins with
green bins here being for green waste and black ones for household.
Salfords "green" garden waste bins are a hideous shade of shocking pink!

Actually my own NY is a lot less bolshy than the two major cities where
they will refuse to empty bins at the very slightest excuse.

--
Regards,
Martin Brown

In article , PeterC
wrote:
On Tue, 06 Oct 2015 17:59:41 +0100, Clive George wrote:

On 06/10/2015 09:53, whisky-dave wrote:

No good to me, I guiss if you're saving the enviroment by driving
around in a car it's OK. But there's no where on a bus I can leave
bags of that size I can just manage 3 ordinary carrier bags they fit
between my feet.

What's wrong with providing your own rather sturdier bag? I'd use a
rucksack, or there's the classic shopping trolley.

I use a rucksack as sometimes the bus fails to turn up so it's then 2
miles home - not fun with carrier bags. There's sometimes a comment when
I occasionally reuse a C&A bag - from people old enough to have shopped
there.

That was the colour blindness test bag?

--
Please note new email address:

In message , DJC writes
On 06/10/15 19:52, Mike Barnes wrote:

The bags I bought eight years ago are showing no signs of giving up.

I also find it quicker and easier to transfer shopping in two or three
decent bags than a dozen flimsy ones, and stuff doesn't escape in the boot.


Reusable bags are fine if you shop by car. They are even ok if you
deliberately set out to walk to the shops. But if you shop on the way
home etc you tend to find yourself in a shop without a bag.

I would tend to have some sort of bag anyway though (rucksack probably).

If not people will either stump up the 5p, or adjust their behaviour and
tend to have a bag stuffed somewhere
--
Chris French

In message , News
writes
In message , Mike Barnes
writes

Our council uses wheelie bins (four different ones), and I've not
heard anything about tied plastic bags for dust. Does "dust" mean from
the vacuum cleaner or from the fire grate?

We have two wheelie bins, one for recycle stuff, and one for the rest.
Dust from the vac and the fire go straight in the 'other' bin. I hose
it out, now and again. The bin, not the fire.

I've no idea about what our LA says, but they don#t seem bothered about
how the rubbish goes in the bin.
--
Chris French

In message , Martin Brown
writes

It is interesting to note the wide variation of colours of bins with
green bins here being for green waste and black ones for household.
Salfords "green" garden waste bins are a hideous shade of shocking pink!

We have black - rubbish, blue - recyclables, green - green waste.

My mum in a neighbouring authority has green for recyclables and brown
for green waste, so I often get the stuff in the wrong bins.....
--
Chris French

On 07/10/2015 09:54, Chris French wrote:
In message , Martin Brown
writes

It is interesting to note the wide variation of colours of bins with
green bins here being for green waste and black ones for household.
Salfords "green" garden waste bins are a hideous shade of shocking pink!

We have black - rubbish, blue - recyclables, green - green waste.

Same here. Blue box and blue sack for paper/cardboard.

My mum in a neighbouring authority has green for recyclables and brown
for green waste, so I often get the stuff in the wrong bins.....

On holiday in Northumberland we discovered the green and black bin
convention was exactly the opposite of that in North Yorkshire.

I guess originally green bins to blend into a rural setting.

--
Regards,
Martin Brown

On Wed, 07 Oct 2015 09:32:56 +0100, charles wrote:

In article , PeterC
wrote:
On Tue, 06 Oct 2015 17:59:41 +0100, Clive George wrote:

On 06/10/2015 09:53, whisky-dave wrote:

No good to me, I guiss if you're saving the enviroment by driving
around in a car it's OK. But there's no where on a bus I can leave
bags of that size I can just manage 3 ordinary carrier bags they fit
between my feet.

What's wrong with providing your own rather sturdier bag? I'd use a
rucksack, or there's the classic shopping trolley.

I use a rucksack as sometimes the bus fails to turn up so it's then 2
miles home - not fun with carrier bags. There's sometimes a comment when
I occasionally reuse a C&A bag - from people old enough to have shopped
there.

That was the colour blindness test bag?

It does seem to be white and muddy grey.
--
Peter.
The gods will stay away
whilst religions hold sway

On 07/10/2015 09:28, Martin Brown wrote:

On 06/10/2015 20:22, Clive George wrote:
If yours says tied plastic bags, the next question is which is more
popular. You did say "almost every local authority" - did you actually
mean "my local authority"?

All the ones I know insist on bagging dust and ash which spans
Newcastle, Manchester and North Yorkshire to names specific ones.

Note mine is in North Yorkshire. Bins are LA, not county.

Have you ever considered that they're just picking on you :-)

Which LA are you in?

PeterC wrote:
On Wed, 07 Oct 2015 09:32:56 +0100, charles wrote:


In , PeterC
wrote:

On Tue, 06 Oct 2015 17:59:41 +0100, Clive George wrote:


On 06/10/2015 09:53, whisky-dave wrote:


No good to me, I guiss if you're saving the enviroment by driving
around in a car it's OK. But there's no where on a bus I can leave
bags of that size I can just manage 3 ordinary carrier bags they fit
between my feet.

What's wrong with providing your own rather sturdier bag? I'd use a
rucksack, or there's the classic shopping trolley.


I use a rucksack as sometimes the bus fails to turn up so it's then 2
miles home - not fun with carrier bags. There's sometimes a comment when
I occasionally reuse a C&A bag - from people old enough to have shopped
there.

That was the colour blindness test bag?

It does seem to be white and muddy grey.

Local Tesco has put the bag recycling trolley outside the
entrance to the shop! Checkout operators are not happy about bag
charging as they get the abuse. I don't understand why paper bags were
included. They seem strong enough in the USA, where double plastic bags
are used for a gallon of milk purchase, but IME only one paper bag is
adquately strong for 2 gallons.

In message , Capitol
writes
PeterC wrote:
On Wed, 07 Oct 2015 09:32:56 +0100, charles wrote:


In , PeterC
wrote:

On Tue, 06 Oct 2015 17:59:41 +0100, Clive George wrote:


On 06/10/2015 09:53, whisky-dave wrote:


No good to me, I guiss if you're saving the enviroment by driving
around in a car it's OK. But there's no where on a bus I can leave
bags of that size I can just manage 3 ordinary carrier bags they fit
between my feet.

What's wrong with providing your own rather sturdier bag? I'd use

rucksack, or there's the classic shopping trolley.


I use a rucksack as sometimes the bus fails to turn up so it's then

miles home - not fun with carrier bags. There's sometimes a comment when
I occasionally reuse a C&A bag - from people old enough to have shopped
there.

That was the colour blindness test bag?

It does seem to be white and muddy grey.

Local Tesco has put the bag recycling trolley outside the
entrance to the shop!

Well that's where our local ones normally are anyway. but I imagine that
stop in a bit (anyway, they can now go in the general recycling bin
here)

Checkout operators are not happy about bag charging as they get the
abuse

Yeah, but that will be a transitory thing, people will soon get used to
it. As it happens I was in Tesco on Monday, lots people seemed to know
about it and lots had brought their own bags. I didn't here any whinging
--
Chris French

On 06/10/2015 22:20, Adrian wrote:
"Mr Pounder Esquire" wrote in message
...

Several of the neighbours told me that my front garden was the best in
the street. I would not bull**** this.

No, but would they?

Come to that, how bad IS the rest of the street...?

Given his recollection of pikey mothers' conversations, or was that
mothers' pikey conversation, in his vicinity, his place must be an oasis
in an otherwise chav area.

Just noticed today that 5p in M&S buys a substantially stronger bag than
they used to charge 5p for (M&S have been charging for big bags for some
time).

This is more like the 1p bags Waitrose and Tesco did in the 70's

"Tim Watts" wrote in message
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On 06/10/15 00:25, Fredxxx wrote:
On 05/10/2015 22:48, Bill Wright wrote:
sm_jamieson wrote:
OK, where can I buy carrier bags for less than 5 pence ? Our free
supply of kitchen bin bags has ended !
Simon.

Apparently we can expect a doubling of cases of food poisoning as a
result of this stupid idea.

Why?

He's thinking of fresh meat/fish getting thrown into a reusable bag with
everything else.

However, bags are free for that type of product.

But the whole thing seems like a stupid waste of time in comparison to the
other problems we face (lack of effective policing, deaths on the road,
looming energy crisis, migrant problem).

but charging each migrant 5p isn't going to solve that problem, is it?

tim

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"Tim Watts" wrote in message
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On 06/10/15 00:25, Fredxxx wrote:
On 05/10/2015 22:48, Bill Wright wrote:
sm_jamieson wrote:
OK, where can I buy carrier bags for less than 5 pence ? Our free
supply of kitchen bin bags has ended !
Simon.

Apparently we can expect a doubling of cases of food poisoning as a
result of this stupid idea.

Why?

He's thinking of fresh meat/fish getting thrown into a reusable bag with
everything else.

However, bags are free for that type of product.

But the whole thing seems like a stupid waste of time in comparison to
the other problems we face (lack of effective policing, deaths on the
road, looming energy crisis, migrant problem).

but charging each migrant 5p isn't going to solve that problem, is it?

tim

If we capped their benefits to that level, it might.

On 07/10/15 19:25, tim..... wrote:

"Tim Watts" wrote in message
news
On 06/10/15 00:25, Fredxxx wrote:
On 05/10/2015 22:48, Bill Wright wrote:
sm_jamieson wrote:
OK, where can I buy carrier bags for less than 5 pence ? Our free
supply of kitchen bin bags has ended !
Simon.

Apparently we can expect a doubling of cases of food poisoning as a
result of this stupid idea.

Why?

He's thinking of fresh meat/fish getting thrown into a reusable bag
with everything else.

However, bags are free for that type of product.

But the whole thing seems like a stupid waste of time in comparison to
the other problems we face (lack of effective policing, deaths on the
road, looming energy crisis, migrant problem).

but charging each migrant 5p isn't going to solve that problem, is it?

tim


If you give the 5p's to me, it'll solve my problems! :0

"Mr Pounder Esquire" wrote in message
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"Clive George" wrote in message
o.uk...
On 06/10/2015 08:51, Martin Brown wrote:

Since almost every local authority insists that you cannot put dust in a
dustbin without putting it in a tied plastic bag the whole concept of
the supermarket bag charging scheme is deeply flawed.

How many LAs use wheelie bins these days? They don't need a tied plastic
bag.

I have a wheelie bin liner in the plastic/glass/tin bin and one in the
gardening bin.
They stop the inside of the bin getting full of ****.
We put the everyday rubbish in sealed plastic bags and put it in the
errrrrrr, every day wheelie bin.

Do you decorate the outside of your wheelie bin with **** bought from the
pound shop eg plastic insects at 2 for a quid?

--
Adam

Capitol wrote:

I don't understand why paper bags were included.

They're not, 2015 SI 776 refers to SUCBs (single use carrier bags)

"A SUCB means an unused bag made of lightweight plastic material with
handles"

Tim Watts wrote:

Just noticed today that 5p in M&S buys a substantially stronger bag than
they used to charge 5p for (M&S have been charging for big bags for some
time).

I noticed exactly the opposite was introduced last week at the local
M&S. Their 5p green "save the fish" bags were quite strong (not quite
bag for life thickness) they've now swapped to black and white
chequerboard bags that are somewhere between the old green ones and a
bog standard disposable bag.

On 07/10/15 22:12, Andy Burns wrote:
Tim Watts wrote:

Just noticed today that 5p in M&S buys a substantially stronger bag than
they used to charge 5p for (M&S have been charging for big bags for some
time).

I noticed exactly the opposite was introduced last week at the local
M&S. Their 5p green "save the fish" bags were quite strong (not quite
bag for life thickness) they've now swapped to black and white
chequerboard bags that are somewhere between the old green ones and a
bog standard disposable bag.


Strange - we are definately looking at the same pair of bags - and IMHO
the white ones seem tougher.

On 07/10/2015 17:51, Clive George wrote:
On 07/10/2015 09:28, Martin Brown wrote:

On 06/10/2015 20:22, Clive George wrote:
If yours says tied plastic bags, the next question is which is more
popular. You did say "almost every local authority" - did you actually
mean "my local authority"?

All the ones I know insist on bagging dust and ash which spans
Newcastle, Manchester and North Yorkshire to names specific ones.

Note mine is in North Yorkshire. Bins are LA, not county.

Have you ever considered that they're just picking on you :-)

Which LA are you in?

Hambleton.

--
Regards,
Martin Brown

In article , Tim Watts
writes
On 07/10/15 19:25, tim..... wrote:

"Tim Watts" wrote in message
news
On 06/10/15 00:25, Fredxxx wrote:
On 05/10/2015 22:48, Bill Wright wrote:
sm_jamieson wrote:
OK, where can I buy carrier bags for less than 5 pence ? Our free
supply of kitchen bin bags has ended !
Simon.

Apparently we can expect a doubling of cases of food poisoning as a
result of this stupid idea.

Why?

He's thinking of fresh meat/fish getting thrown into a reusable bag
with everything else.

However, bags are free for that type of product.

But the whole thing seems like a stupid waste of time in comparison to
the other problems we face (lack of effective policing, deaths on the
road, looming energy crisis, migrant problem).

but charging each migrant 5p isn't going to solve that problem, is it?

tim


If you give the 5p's to me, it'll solve my problems! :0

That's what I object to - where the 5p goes. This charge is a tax
designed to change behaviour and as such should go to hard pressed local
councils to provide better services. I do not like being charged a
compulsory donation to so-called charities, large companies who enjoy
tax perks and exemption from employment laws, claim to be
"not-for-profit" when they are, pay chief executives more than the prime
minister but expect their shop assistants to work for nothing and harass
the vulnerable to extort money.
--
bert