Plastic bags

Lord_Baltimore

Altarf wrote: »

So do you now accept that plastic bag littering was only a problem in scummy cities where yobs didn't know how to behave.

If so, then the plastic bag tax was a pretty blunt tool to solve that localised problem.

I accept your word as a local yokel that your street and your town are plastic litter free but it might be that the errant plastic bags in our urban areas, oceans and countryside are hidden from your view by cowpats and sileage. Oo arrr.

And, as I rightly guessed, money is the issue that bothers you, not litter. The charge will continue to be effective in England (as it has been throughout the rest of the UK) which makes it a sharp, not blunt, tool.

melanzana

I live in ROI. Bags are 22c for the flimsy ones and anyone's guess after that for the store logo, heavier ones.

No one buys a bag in the shop now and I mean NO ONE, well ok, the odd person who forgets that bags are no longer supplied!

I have a selection of lovely tiny fold up bags that fit into my hand they are so small, but they open up into great shopping bags! ALWAYS have one in the handbag. You never know!

At one time here, there were plastic shopping bags caught up in the trees there were so many of them.

It's a great thing.

Just have to think, remember, and keep a little bag with you all the time!

Well done, it's a great move.

Nick_C

melanzana wrote: »

I have a selection of lovely tiny fold up bags that fit into my hand they are so small, but they open up into great shopping bags! ALWAYS have one in the handbag. You never know!.

That's a great tip

I just have to start using a handbag I guess

Altarf

Lord_Baltimore wrote: »

I accept your word as a local yokel that your street and your town are plastic litter free but it might be that the errant plastic bags in our urban areas, oceans and countryside are hidden from your view by cowpats and sileage. Oo arrr.

Actually in this area it is arable farming rather than livestock.

Still doesn't get away from the point that the plastic bag littering problem was not everywhere, but was mainly a feature of run down inner city areas.

Lord_Baltimore

Altarf wrote: »

Actually in this area it is arable farming rather than livestock.

Still doesn't get away from the point that the plastic bag littering problem was not everywhere, but was mainly a feature of run down inner city areas.

I've seen plenty of plastic bags in hedgerows. Perhaps they are not easily seen from inside a combine harvester? But the point is plastic pollution is everywhere (except in your street and town centre. Lucky wurzels )

Sicard

Lord_Baltimore wrote: »

I've seen plenty of plastic bags in hedgerows. Perhaps they are not easily seen from inside a combine harvester? But the point is plastic pollution is everywhere (except in your street and town centre. Lucky wurzels )

Golly-gosh, I do hope this chappy wasn't drinking scrumpy whilst driving it :eek:

Lord_Baltimore

Laurie_Sicard-Askey wrote: »

Golly-gosh, I do hope this chappy wasn't drinking scrumpy whilst driving it :eek:

When the moon shines on the plastic
and he's rolling in the hay,
All the cows are up there grazin'
and the milk is on its way.

He is a Cider Drinker,
He drinks it all of the day,
He is a Cider Drinker,
it soothes all 'is troubles away,
Ooh arrh, ooh arrh ay, Ooh arrh, ooh arrh ay