Poly bags to be charged forPoly bags to be charged forPersonally, I think it is a good idea but what about getting suppliers to cut down on packaging. Seems to me to be overly excessive at times.
Michael
Re: Poly bags to be charged forRightly so to. The plastic is a menace everywhere.
Pet hate. Having to pick up the bio degradable dog poop amongst the plastic bottles and bags left around. No problem with the poop picking [the story of my life] it is the litter around that is going to take many, many years to get rid of http://www.busheyk9.co.uk
If you can't be a good example........ you will just have to be a horrible warning Re: Poly bags to be charged forA good idea, but it's not going to happen until 2015. Why not immediately? Cloth shopping bags are easy to make, a sewing machine with minimal skills are all that is required.
Ilona
Re: Poly bags to be charged forI think that it is a good thing although, like has already been said, it should be happening sooner. I also believe that plastic packaging on food should be taxed to encourage less of that. We are treating our planet as if we have another one to go to. Perhaps a photo of one of your bags would be in order Ilona (we like photos on the lane).
Bah Humbug
Re: Poly bags to be charged forSeems to have worked well here in Wales.
Live a simple life and be happy , Rich.
Re: Poly bags to be charged forShops charged for plastic bags for as long as I can remember in Germany! I still use linen bags I bought 20yrs ago. I've always got my shopping bags in the car.
It always surprised me how much plastic is being used here in the UK! Plastic milk bottles, lemonade, coke ect ect ect! There really is no need for all this plastic! We used to buy drinks in glass bottles in a crate. The first one you had to pay for, but got that money off the next one when you returned the empty crate with bottles. I tend to leave lots of packages at the supermarkets. If we all did it, they would soon get the message, that we don't want or need it! Slave to 3 children, 1 Greyhound, 1 Cat, 4 rescued hens and a very patient hubby x
R.I.P: Ellie, Phoebe, Tikka Freshstart for hens collection point Aylesbury, Bucks Re: Poly bags to be charged forI must admit it took a bit of getting used to when we first moved here but I've got used to it now and carry cloth ones that go very small in my handbag so I don't get caught out. Plus I always keep large shopping bags in the car.
However when we was in UK last Asda were already charging in Wales. Even W H Smiths have been charging for ages. They said on the news that the supermarkets are not going to pocket the money, its going to a recycle charities yea OK we believe you not. Plus why wait 2 years
Re: Poly bags to be charged forWhen Tescos were giving points for re-using bags/taking your own, I bought a few of the cloth ones as they were not that expensive 50p-£1 and had a lot of use out of them (they don't split when carrying pop bottles or tins) The only regret is that I didn't have a ready source of bags for putting rubbish in for the dust bin but having said that, with recycling bins now part of the norm, the amount of black bin waste has been cut down drastically ... I'm even thinking I don't need a full size bin anymore but it does have its uses when having a major clear out.
As like everyone else and for the same reasons, I'll be glad to see a massive reduction in plastic bags and packaging.
It was the same when I was growing up abroad. Also, instead of plastic bags, shops provided brown paper bags - if you went into department stores, they were pretty bags with coloured string/rope handles, or wrapped in brown paper and string (I especially remember comic books and magazines being rolled up and tied with string) It all sounds a bit old fashioned but back then, the bin rarely had package waste in it at all.
Politics The only thing I can suggest is that if people wrote to their MP and suggested it was done much sooner. Also, don't forget there is an industry out there that would lose out ... much as we'd like to see the back of plastic generation, it will mean loss of jobs at a time when there are not that many around. Re: Poly bags to be charged for
Funny though isn't it if they want to put petrol up its done from midnight that night.
Re: Poly bags to be charged forI too have a range of hessian bags from various sources - they tend to shed so I also have a few I made from bits of fabric, old clothes etc. I keep my change purse and a notebook and pen in one and bout 3 in all in the boot. It took a while but I am now fully in the habit.
And I am sure I have posted before about my leaving all unecessary packaging in the bins at supermarkets - and the harangues I have received from customers and security guards. I am waiting for the first time someone stops and joins in 1 dumbo rat still without a name; 2 top eared rats Octavia and Ursula
1 Rhode Rock, 1 Sussex Star, 1 Blue Ranger - The New Monochrome Set My crafty blog, it's Frugal too http://relovedremnants.blogspot.co.uk/ Re: Poly bags to be charged forM&S already charge near me and I think it is a really good idea.
I use re-useable bags - small folding ones that are always with me 'in case' and bigger hessian dedicated ones, including a brilliant insulated one for chilled/frozen stuff. Having said that, my system is not 100% foolproof, and occasionally I need plastic ones, but I will know if I forget mine and have to pay then it's my fault! Helen xx
3 children, 3 grandchildren, 3 chooks, 3 fish, a shrimp that thinks its a prawn and a dappy dog. http://www.acountrygrandma.blogspot.com
Re: Poly bags to be charged forI heard they'll only be charging 5p per plastic bag?!
Personally, I don't think that's enough! Such a small charge is not going to make such a huge difference to a lot of people and I am sure many will still use/buy them. I think 50p would make shoppers think twice! Slave to 3 children, 1 Greyhound, 1 Cat, 4 rescued hens and a very patient hubby x
R.I.P: Ellie, Phoebe, Tikka Freshstart for hens collection point Aylesbury, Bucks Re: Poly bags to be charged forThe plastic carrier bag levy in Southern Ireland is 22¢ which is about 19 of your English pence.
Very rare to see anyone with a plastic carrier bag unless it's a reuseable one. I did see once on an Irish forum how to make a shopping bag from a chicken feed bag. I will try to find it as it may be of use to all the chicken fanciers on here.
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Re: Poly bags to be charged forIt's coming up to the second anniversary of the charge being introduced in Wales and it has made an enormous difference to the amount of litter flying around. Even the youngsters picnicking in the wood take their litter home now .. probably because their mums shout at them as they're leaving to bring the bag they've had to pay for home with them.
I did think it would be hard to remember to take shopping bags with me every time I went to the supermarket even though I tried not to use plastic bags anyway, but it only took a couple of times of arriving at the checkout without them for it to become second nature to take them with me. I also keep some extra bags in the car in case it doesn't all fit in the bags I take with me then I just pile it on top of the trolley and pack them when I get back to the car. I was in a supermarket in Derby earlier this year and the checkout operator threw a handful of carrier bags on top of my shopping ..I quickly added up how much she was going to charge and threw them back, the poor girl thought I was mad till I explained that we had to pay for them in Wales! I really don't understand why it has to take another 2 years to implement the charge in England ..all the supermarkets already have the charge on their systems from operating in Wales. |
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