Green taxes -Plastic bags to be banned ??

Fifer

Gingham_Ribbon wrote: »

~That's my point. I use about 3 bags a week which get reused as bin liners. Use maximised before discarded. How is that worse for the environment than using something else to transport groceries then putting waste in another bag?

It isn't. As magy says, if everyone did so, there wouldn't be a problem.

gravitytolls

I reuse my carriers too. They're kept, and used for transporting other things, and for lining the small waste bins in the bathroom and bedrooms.

However, if bags were taxed, these bins wouldn't be lined at all.

mutley74

excellent idea! Wish Asda, Morrisons etc all charge for bags (Netto, Aldo etc all do). I hate seeing people shopping then getting all thos bags and binning them when they get home. I see it loads of people at my work do that - but lunch from supermarket - bin plastic bag- repeat the same rest of week!

scheming_gypsy

gravitytolls wrote: »

I reuse my carriers too. They're kept, and used for transporting other things, and for lining the small waste bins in the bathroom and bedrooms.

However, if bags were taxed, these bins wouldn't be lined at all.

same 'ere. I've a drawer full of bin bags, like many people probably, which get reused for bins. I don't have a kitchen bin because they stink so i use a carrier bag and then sling it in the wheely bin.
Does this report / idea think everybody goes shopping, gets a carrier bag and then just throw it away? most people i know stick them in a drawer, under the sink or in another carrier bag till they need one.

I usually go shopping after work, does that mean i should keep a car full of carrier bags in case i want to go shopping?

scheming_gypsy

atpug wrote: »

I hate seeing people shopping then getting all thos bags and binning them when they get home.

not as much as they hate you following them home, barging into their house and watching them unpack their shopping. Or are you making your generalisation on what you do when you've been shopping?

Errata

Back in the dark ages, before plastic carrier bags were invented, shops used small and large brown paper carrier bags and charged for them. Plus ca change !

Mado

scheming_gypsy wrote: »

I usually go shopping after work, does that mean i should keep a car full of carrier bags in case i want to go shopping?

Yes, exactly!:T
In fact you do better than that, you acquire some nice canvas bags that you leave in the back of the car (Waitrose gives you 4 brilliant bags when you sign up for the self scan, and I have seen recently people with black Tesco finest bags).

scheming_gypsy

not a chance.

peter999

Mado wrote: »

Yes, exactly!:T
In fact you do better than that, you acquire some nice canvas bags that you leave in the back of the car (Waitrose gives you 4 brilliant bags when you sign up for the self scan, and I have seen recently people with black Tesco finest bags).

Anyone that falls for ANY Green marketing nonsense pushed by Supermarkets, needs their heads testing.

canvas bags v plastic bags :rotfl:

Marketing ploy on consumer guilt or Reuse/Recycle/Reduce waste

The idea that Supermarkets have any genuine interest in Green issues, is patently ridiculous.

peter999

lxpeanut

There was a time not that long ago when people went shopping and weren't given plastic bags covered in marketing for the shop they had been to. Instead they took their own bags and they managed perfectly well.

I reuse any plastic bags I do get as bin liners but there was a time when people managed without these as well.

peter999 the reason supermarkets want you to reduce the number of plastic bags has nothing to do with them being green or even getting good publicity it has alot more to do with them reducing the amount they have to contribute to the recycling of plastics.