MSE News: 5p bag charge to include smaller stores

aj23_2

Nick_C wrote: »

You can't normally put your mixed recycling inside a plastic bag, but I've never heard of a council that says you can't put plastic bags into your residual waste.

Which council is it?

East Herts. We can put general waste in an eco-friendly bag, but if we use bin liners and plastic shopping bags, the entire bin isn't emptied.

If the lid doesn't close, even by a few inches, they won't empty it either.

Nick_C

aj23 wrote: »

East Herts. We can put general waste in an eco-friendly bag, but if we use bin liners and plastic shopping bags, the entire bin isn't emptied.

That's weird. Their web site says you can put black sacks, plastic bags, and carrier bags in your black bin.

https://www.eastherts.gov.uk/bins

NineDeuce

This is a really controversial move. I will have to steal my Drumstick lolly each time now rather than pay for it.

aj23_2

Nick_C wrote: »

That's weird. Their web site says you can put black sacks, plastic bags, and carrier bags in your black bin.

https://www.eastherts.gov.uk/bins

What a website says and what the dustmen do are very different things! They didn't take our bin once because the lid wasn't closing by a few inches and was classed as "overflowing".

They often don't take stuff.

Silvertabby

MSE_Tony wrote: »

Sadly the 5p charge in more stores is not really going to put shoppers off and agree it would be a good idea to get rid of them (or replace for paper bags).

As that is not going to happen, the charge per bag should be increased and maybe introduce a scheme to return carrier bags (bit like returning glass bottles in years gone by) where you get rewarded ie: a couple of pence, 5p or 10p per bag in the form of a shopping voucher.

I am sure the youngsters would be up for that and likely to pick a bag up in the the street if they spotted one blowing around.

Some would, as long as they collected enough to make it worth their while.

Many years ago, when coin operated supermarket trollies were first introduced, my mum was asked by a young urchin if he could take her trolley back for her. What a nice, polite, helpful young man, mum thought. So she stood waiting for him to return with her coin... and waited.... and waited.

Nick_C

aj23 wrote: »

What a website says and what the dustmen do are very different things! They didn't take our bin once because the lid wasn't closing by a few inches and was classed as "overflowing".

They often don't take stuff.

If they don't empty your bin because you contain your waste in plastic bags then you should complain.

If your bin is so full that the lid won't close, or you have put recycling into your bin, then they have a right not to empty it.

aj23_2

Nick_C wrote: »

If they don't empty your bin because you contain your waste in plastic bags then you should complain.

If your bin is so full that the lid won't close, or you have put recycling into your bin, then they have a right not to empty it.

They took one of the small recycling bins last year as well, so we are without that (for plastics I think).

Yeah but when the lid doesn't close by two inches or so, it's hardly overflowing. They always used to take it. Apparently any excess should be put next to the bin, but then other things might happen as a result of that.

johncas1

redfox wrote: »

I completely agree. There should be no need for the 'one use' bags if everybody accepted that we are strangling the planet with plastic and took their own bags when shopping.

There are plenty of fold up ones that you can slip in your pocket if carrying them around is an issue.

Yes but people need to buy them to use as bin bags even though you can get a 100 roll at the pound shop for £1.00 100 5p bags cost more than that

johncas1

aj23 wrote: »

East Herts. We can put general waste in an eco-friendly bag, but if we use bin liners and plastic shopping bags, the entire bin isn't emptied.

If the lid doesn't close, even by a few inches, they won't empty it either.

General waste goes in the landfill site now bin liners should be ok as they are biodegradable the bags you get from shops are not so they just stay in the landfill site and dont degrade they designed to be recycled thats why some councils done like them in the bin with food waste

johncas1

Nick_C wrote: »

You can't normally put your mixed recycling inside a plastic bag, but I've never heard of a council that says you can't put plastic bags into your residual waste.

Which council is it?

I have there excuse is the 5p bags which are now thicker as you paying for them are not biodegradable ai they dont want them in the bin but you can recycle them can see more councils in the future doing the same