Green taxes -Plastic bags to be banned ??

peter999

Shoppers face 10p tax on bags
http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/consumer/caring/article.html?in_article_id=422288&in_page_id=511&ct=5

"Londoners will have to pay 10p for every plastic bag under a new law proposed for the capital.

The charge, aimed at curbing the amount of waste sent to landfill sites, could eventually lead to an outright ban on carrier bags.

London's 33 boroughs will include the measure in a new London Local Authorities Bill to be put before MPs in November."

peter999

Hereward

So how is a charge of 10p banning plastic bags? IMO, this can only be a good thing as I always seem to be given bags for single items (I leave the bag in the shop).

dccarm

I was in Ireland when their plastic bag tax came in. The difference overnight was phenomenal.

There's no suggestion of a ban in your article - perhaps you should rephrase the thread title?

OddjobKIA

And....................

ReportInvestor

And what about a 20p minimum charge on the free newspapers which daily litter up the capital and are mostly a series of stories and pictures sent in by the agents of celebrities?

Hereward

ReportInvestor wrote: »

And what about a 20p minimum charge on the free newspapers which daily litter up the capital and are mostly a series of stories and pictures sent in by the agents of celebrities?

Personally, I think that the owners of these newspapers should have to pay for the costs of collection and recycling of them, rather than the reader.

Plum_Pie

ReportInvestor wrote: »

And what about a 20p minimum charge on the free newspapers which daily litter up the capital and are mostly a series of stories and pictures sent in by the agents of celebrities?

Agreed! No one seems to want to read them now anyway. Massive take up of London Lite and the London paper in the first 2 weeks. 2 months on and pedestrians are swearing at the poor skint s*ds who clutter up the pavement handing them out at the end of the day while we're trying to get to our buses and trains.

Gingham_Ribbon

I haven't bought bin liners for years. I use carrier bags. How is a carrier bag any worse for the environment than a bin liner? At least the carrier gets used for more than one task.

Bargain_Rzl

Absolutely Gingham - the main reason I do part of my shopping at Iceland is that their plastic bags make perfect kitchen bin bags - they're just the right size and aren't too flimsy

Hereward

Gingham_Ribbon wrote: »

I haven't bought bin liners for years. I use carrier bags. How is a carrier bag any worse for the environment than a bin liner? At least the carrier gets used for more than one task.

You don't need bin liners to put your rubbish in, unless your council does not use wheelie bins. The liners just save you having to wash your kitchen bin out with water, every once in a while. (If you are recycling properly, you will find that the amount of waste you send to landfill would reduce considerably).

ReportInvestor

Hereward wrote: »

Personally, I think that the owners of these newspapers should have to pay for the costs of collection and recycling of them, rather than the reader.

Agreed.

I assume they must add a small fortune to the clean up costs for Transport for London :mad: .

But many won't get close to a recycling facility.

Plum_Pie wrote: »

Agreed! No one seems to want to read them now anyway.

If only you were right .

Perhaps, as part of Ed Balls' new "flexible" curriculum, kids could demonstrate against this collosal waste of resources outside London underground stations and film the reaction of the public to this cause?

Then get on national news with the results? It'd make a good item and be a valid educational exercise.