Plastic Bags

[emmie]

will you care that you will have to pay 5p for the privilege, i can't see it making any difference at all, now if you banned them in shops entirely, then the folks would have to have a bag for life, not the missus either,
or take a trolley, backpack, some other means of transporting the goods.

[dunnitall]

Have all shopping bags in the car so don't use carriers from the shop. Thk the should charge for them though it might make people think about taking their own (if they don't forget to lol). As for packaging don't start me on that one, the supermarkets of course the worst offenders.

[DrFilth]

for those that do not have a car this will cause problems

[emmie]

i had to take the shears to one piece of packaging, i think it was an adaptor, plug, i forget, the thing was pressed into the plastic packaging, then had another equally impossible to get out outer layer.

[emmie]

i don't and i don't have a problem, its called a shopping trolley.

[beso]

Whenever places ban plastic bags, sales of plastic bin liner bags increase.

There is nothing really wrong with plastic bags themselves as they are fully recyclable. Unfortunately some people are irresponsible and let them loose.

In Australia many shops have heavy duty reusable polypropylene bags for sale at the checkout. Liquor outlets give them away with four or six bottles.

However I wonder how many of them end up in landfill.

[DrFilth]

emmie i can't see me pulling one of those every time i leave the house just in case i want to do some shopping on the way back home

[kvalidir]

We use them to light the fires. If you stuff one of those big plastic bottles with plastic supermarket bags the light the fire beautifully, very useful.

[emmie]

how are plastic bags recyclable, many are obviously not, unless you mean use them to line bins etc, but that still means they end up in landfill

[emmie]

kvaldir, doesn't that give off toxic fumes?

[DrFilth]

emmie asda had no plastic bags at the tills yesterday so they put my shopping in white bin liners they will get reused as i will put rubbish in

[sandyRoe]

Chemists still provide bags for free in Ireland.
I notice in the supermarket that people are using their own shopping bags, reticules and the like.

[emmie]

then throw the rubbish out, which goes in landfill, unless they use these large incinerators, perhaps the whole issue of recycling should be thoroughly overhauled. i don't think charging 5p per bag is going to stop anyone, if you spend 50, 100 quid a week on shopping.

[DrFilth]

lidyl only charge 3p a bag so i always buy an extra bag they always come in handy

[naomi24]

Emmie, //doesn't that give off toxic fumes? //

Yes. It's dangerous. Not to be advised.

[emmie]

that's what i thought.

[kvalidir]

But done everywhere in the country, and we're all still alive and kicking, so I think we'll probably continue. Everyone I know around here starts their fires like that, but we're in the depths of the country so around here people do lots of things that some people would throw their hands up in horror about.

[LyndaB]

A few weeks ago, I bought myself some string bags from Amazon, and I love them. I already use my supply of plastic carrier bags for putting rubbish in, but I've started even reusing these too. Instead of chucking the bag in the bin, I empty the contents into the bin and then rinse it out under the tap and peg it on the line. I've made two bags last about four weeks and it give my family a constant source of amusement ha ha

[emmie]

lynda, good for you.
what people do in the country shouldn't be any different in the towns, t protect the environment, wildlife, i know that may sound a bit dippy, but shouldn't we at least try, and charging for plastic bags at 5p a go isn't the answer. its made people lazy.

[ladybirder]

The guy that delivers my shopping from Waitrose asks me if I have any to go back which I think they should all do because they always use more than they need to.

[naomi24]

I live in the depths of the country too. I don't know anyone who does it.