Say NO to plastic bags

Zziggi

Does anyone know where you can get those 'cloth' bags from? When i lived in germany i had a whole supply of these and used them when i came back to the UK. However they have all worn out and been chucked after several years of use and i am now, reluctantly, back onto carriers. The only one I have was one given to me by the health visitor with some books at DS's 7 month health check. Can anyone point me in the direction of getting some more cloth bags please?

novice_money_saver_2

TOTALLY AGREE!

I've only been properly committed to this for about a year and I used to end up with stack of bags, simply because i had no idea what impact it was having.

I feel so proud when I remember to take my bags to the supermarket, I know its only one step in a HUGE process but I'm trying.

REDUCE REUSE RECYCLE

By the way - I don't have this car.....

Dora_the_Explorer_5

I noticed in Germany that wicker baskets were very popular. I recycle my plastic carrier bags as bin liners and when I get a surplus I recycle them to my village post office/general store - I'm sure a bag can pass backwards and forwards between me and the shop several times.
Anyone remember when carrier bags were made from strong brown paper, came in two sizes and we had to pay for them?

workshop

Just received this notice with a delivery from Tesco Huddersfield:-

Customer Information

STOP !!!

Don't throw your used Home Shopping Carrier Bags away.

We now operate a Recycling Service at the Huddersfield Store for unwanted Carrier Bags.

Please hand them to the driver on your next delivery.

Every Little Helps.

Hermia

rlm wrote:

she said that back home they have special trucks that weigh the amount of rubbish in your wheelie been and you get charged for refuse collection by how much you put in your bin for non-recylcable refuse. It seems that day has already dawned in Ireland.
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I don't understand how this can work. I have lived in two places where we had wheely-bins and you were strongly discouraged from leaving out additional bags of rubbish. So, of course, other people would put their rubbish in other peoples' bins. I once came home from work and found my bin was already half-full of someone else's rubbish. Where I live now the bin men won't take green waste and several times last year someone left bags of green waste in my front garden (my neighbour even spotted another neighbour putting garden bags outside her house at 2am!). If we introduce a similar law here I just worry that some people will end up paying for other peoples' rubbish.

gromituk

workshop wrote:

STOP !!!

Don't throw your used Home Shopping Carrier Bags away.

We now operate a Recycling Service at the Huddersfield Store for unwanted Carrier Bags.

Please hand them to the driver on your next delivery.

Every Little Helps.

...but not much. As has been said: reduce, re-use, recycle. Far better to use fewer bags in the first place than to recycle them. This supermarket recycling fashion is a bit of a sham. I gather that you tend to get far too many bags when you get home delivery.

gromituk

Hermia wrote:

If we introduce a similar law here I just worry that some people will end up paying for other peoples' rubbish.

We already do, with all the fly-tipping resulting from the landfill tax. Not an easy one to sort out, really.

Hermia

gromituk wrote:

We already do, with all the fly-tipping resulting from the landfill tax. Not an easy one to sort out, really.

True, but at least we are all suffering for that! If they actually charged a household directly for having excessive rubbish (which was something that was discussed in the newspapers a while back) than one honest individual could end up actually having to fork out for other people's rubbish.

We are having another problem similar to this at the moment because one household keeps putting nappies down the toilet. The drains end up blocked, but it never effects these people. They apparantly have a 'good' bit of drain under their house, but a couple of houses in the street have drains that are narrow or have a bend in them under their houses. So, two houses frequently have dreadful problems with blocked drains and have to call the water board out because they end up with sewage in their garden. They unfortunately have to pay for the water board to come out. The water board acknowledge that the problems are always caused by nappies and they acknowledge that it is not the fault of the person who called them out. But these people still have to pay for another person's behaviour.

I would welcome a tax on excessive rubbish if people were not so selfish and had some concept of being a good neighbour.

kittiwoz

Hermia wrote:

If we introduce a similar law here I just worry that some people will end up paying for other peoples' rubbish.

Locks on bins?

I take a couple of fabric shoulder bags I got free with magazines when I go shopping. Not only does it save the environment but it saves my fingers! It's so much easier to carry heavy goods in a bag on your shoulder than in your hand.

metherer

Zzigi:

Try http://greenshop.co.uk/ They do their own brand cotton bag, meaning you can advertise their environmental products while using one. £3.

Hope this helps,

Metherer
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