Say NO to plastic bags

EagerLearner

Yes - saw this on the news this morning, hopefully all other supermarkets will follow them now they have made the issue even more prominent...

C_Ronaldo

i read somewhere that one of the big supermarkets wasnt going to look into biodegradable bags

gromituk

Far better to use fewer bags than to substitute standard bags with biodegradables.

fizzel81

vantheman wrote:

I noticed on BBC world that in Germany during the world cup lots of bottles both plastic/glass and tin cans are being left all over the place. However the neat thing is that whoever picks them up and brings them to a recycling place or back to source gets cash 15cents glass bottles and 5cents for plastic bottles and cans.

Van

its better than that its 25cents a bottle glass or plastic now, the amount round the estate we used to find when we lived in germany

C_Ronaldo

i remember years and years ago in france that if you had empty glass bottles you could take them to a hypermarket i think and you would get so much for every bottle back

speedyjoe

Lillibet wrote:

Tesco getting a bit more ethical AND money saving with their carrier bags:D

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/5244708.stm

I heard this on radio 4 this morning, the interviewer challenged the Tesco guy with words to the effect "isn't this a token environmental gesture, what about unneccesary packaging, food miles etc?" and the Tesco guy said "well we have got to start somewhere"

My mind was then cast back to the 1980's when supermarket carrier bag use was very much hotly debated and I thought "I wonder if in twenty five years I will hear on the radio the supermarket spokesman trumpeting how they are now making a start on environmental issues"

Call me cynical but I think it's just another token plastic halo for Tescos.

jo_b_2

speedyjoe wrote:

the interviewer challenged the Tesco guy with words to the effect "isn't this a token environmental gesture, what about unneccesary packaging, food miles etc?" and the Tesco guy said "well we have got to start somewhere"

Call me cynical but I think it's just another token plastic halo for Tescos.

To be honest whether it's a token gesture and/or a cynical marketing ploy by Tesco's, if it helps to help to reduce the amount of rubbish going towards landfill then I'm totally in favour.

I know it's not much but it is better than nothing.

speedyjoe

jo_b wrote:

To be honest whether it's a token gesture and/or a cynical marketing ploy by Tesco's, if it helps to help to reduce the amount of rubbish going towards landfill then I'm totally in favour.

I know it's not much but it is better than nothing.

Well yes, but if it is smoothing over the guilt of shoppers who go to Tescos, buy vast amounts of prepackaged, long distance sourced, unethically produced groceries and then to their very hearts believe that they are "saving the planet" then surely it is just another gimmick helping to oil the engines of consumerism?

Poppea

Just returned from the shops and on my short 5 minute walk home counted twenty plastic bags littering the streets and people's front gardens. I am sick of seeing the mess they create. If you are as incensed as I am and want to see a plastic bag tax brought in asap PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE take a bit of time out to e-mail the PM and write him a quick message CLICK HERE

You never know what might happen if enough of us do it. I've just e-mailed him for the third time!!

jellycat40

have sent PM an email.

Won't hold my breath though.

Louise