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well here's news for the government; this is one consumer that will not be paying it. So consequently you have just lost my 5p a bag donation to the coffers. I would suggest everyone else does the same
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pretty sure thats what they want... less bags in circulation, more reuse.
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never be sure what this government wants. I see this as pure robbery & an affront to the elderly- disabled & poor of this country.
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Perhaps if they made it £1 a bag people would look after them and there would be less pollution.
You can’t walk 10 yards in this country without coming across litter. Don’t schools or parents these days teach respect for the environment? Of course some people don’t actually care. What i’d Like to do if I saw someone dropping litter is to late at night break into their house and dump a bin bag full of litter all over their living room floor. I would love to see their reaction. People who drop litter are vermin. |
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its currently 10p for a bag for life, no problem as they take old one and replace it with more free adverts.
government should make these interchangeable, so m and s will swap a waitrose bag, etc we must have about 30 of the beggars in car boot, and remembering which ones need replacing is fun. as we may not go to some stores for months. |
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Should be more.
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30 is quite enough, cheers edy
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I have a couple of Morrisons stronger, and more commodious ones, that will last for ages.
Don't know how much they were, as I didn't ask, but I would guess less than 25p. Just have to remember to put them back in the car, with the 10p Tesco ones, if needed. |
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I wonder what Jim & Twiggy from The Royle family would say
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"never be sure what this government wants. I see this as pure robbery & an affront to the elderly- disabled & poor of this country."
Great post. Lets see if Corbyn promises to repeal this law and offer unlimited free plastic bags to all poor people. |
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In the States (not sure if it's everywhere) they ask "plastic or paper", and I said "plastic", as I thought they were talking about currency!
So could we not introduce paper bags, as these would go in the recycling? Wonder for what reason our wonderful government would slap another tax on it! |
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tbh i don't think i've ever seen an American programme, even back to recordings of Bewitched in the 60's, where they don't walk in the kitchen carrying paper bags full of 'groceries'
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i think this topic needs livening up. Why not just ban plastic bags in supermarkets all together?
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I'm sure Sainsbury's used to have paper bags in the 80s.
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Because then the govt would lose revenue which is the real reason for this latest increase.
The 5p charge was so successful in getting people to avoid the bags that the govt didn't make as much as they expected. No wonder Hammond's gloomy  |
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ay caramba! a believer appears.
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btw; the nutcase has been trying to push this through since the summer. It only took a backward step because the nutcases 'baby' was signed on the 12th July
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charge a pound a bag ...and i'd fine any fooker overloading their black bin to the tune of £100 at the same time ...dirty,scummy,filthy,smelly low class vermin ....
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The 10p a bag money goes to the supermarkets. With the exception of Sainsburys, when the 5p was introduced, they said the increased revenue would go to good causes.
If you imagine about £5 of shopping value per bag - and we don't have a bag when we enter the shop - it represents a 1% surcharge on the shop, now that will be 2%. The supermarkets could, if they wanted do loads about this. Paper bags are fine, or at least they were until the 70's when plastic bags (much heavier duty than now) started to be used. Fish and meat was wrapped in paper, fruit and veg went into paper bags. There is enough plastic around a bunch of grapes or pack of pork chops to make a couple of hundred bags. Maybe someone in authority might consider where the biggest waste of plastic is coming from. Even within supermarkets it isn't carrier bags. |
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thank you, Studyform you have saved me doing a list. And your last line projects my argument.
Just like everything ecology wise, 'big biz' is given a free rein. the plastic bag in supermarkets is a mere jot in the ocean - literally. If the question of plastic pollution was to be eradicated then closing down every supermarket would eliminate just about 1.000th of many 1,000s of many 1,000000s of the problem. Nappies/Deipers alone worldwide would surpass the supermarkets in its plastic waste. Now about this 10p... |
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almost forgot; David Sainsbury, wasn't he a Labour MP
 Although i think the fickleness of the Sainsbury family towards politics can only be matched to the Mormons solidarity towards monogamy |
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a lot of the plastic wrapping isn't allowed in the recycling bin either ..and that's on everything
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correct. Maybe this topic is now getting somewhere
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Should be £1 a bag, imo.
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well it was
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we are all using more plastic bags now than we did when they were free
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Agree, £1 each a more serious statement to Joe and Harriet public, I did get caught out 2x when leaving bags in the car at checkout.
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I've a binliner full of supermarket bags. Great for putting the trash out!
Generally I use a rucksack, boxes or a Bag For Life. |
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Wouldn’t matter if they were £10 at the supermarket , we are still using more than when they were nothing
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There’s trilby is still using plastic bags
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what about the disabled; pensioners and infirm who rely on home deliverys - you want to charge them £1 a bag?
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Home deliveries? one certain crowd pay you to give them bags back,why not all of them?
Re-use bags or pay the price,feck pensioners and the rest using a bag once. |
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pensioners don’t throw them into the street
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one do, yes if you spend £40 a pop with them. Of the cheaper ones, Asda £25 spend a delivery, no refund!
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neither does trilby , he uses them because they are essential and we need them
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I also always carry a couple spare in my rucksack.
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There you go :)
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