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5p bag charge - your views
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Have you read enough to know its not a tax?
Yes they might have been used to carry shopping, they could of also been used to carry a dead cat, who knows. To save 20p there's no way I'd bother.
I don't understand your point. My post was entirely accurate.
What doesn't define that what should be a carrier bag?
The law requires that charges are made in certain circumstances for carrier bags. If it doesn't have handles, it isn't a carrier bag!
The law states that charges have to be made for single use bags, it doesn't state that these must be carrier bags.
It makes more sense to me to re-use the bag than as you say send a perfectly good bag to be recycled into a new one.
I can bear pain myself, he said softly, but I couldna bear yours. That would take more strength than I have -
Diana Gabaldon, Outlander
Actually it does specify (bold bits are my edit):
"You must charge at least 5p for single-use carrier bags in England from 5 October 2015 if you’re a large retailer.
You must charge at least 5p a bag (including VAT) for carrier bags that are all of the following:
•unused - it’s new and hasn’t already been used for sold goods to be taken away or delivered
•plastic and 70 microns thick or less
•it has handles, an opening and isn’t sealed"
So, no handles = not a carrier bag that must be charged for
Aha, confusing English and Scottish legislation.
Then you need to learn the facts about contaminated meat packaging and fast, before you get an unpleasant surprise. It is acknowledged that the majority of poultry in this country is contaminated - and so is the exterior of many of the packs used to contain it.
Sooner or later someone young, old or with a compromised immune system if going to get killed by this idiocy and all the virtue signalling in the world won't make amends.