New plastic bag levy

_Kaiser_

ReginaldSmythV wrote: »

I'll pay whatever for the paper cups. Drinking out of those horrible lifetime ones isn't the same.

It's like those godawful paper straws now.

Shyte and if you have something like a milkshake they disintegrate before you even get halfway through it.

notobtuse

If the government didn’t tax plastic bags they’d find something else to tax. Why does the government hit the least threatening environmental scourges and ignore more serious threats? New super-absorbent material in diapers contains all leachable toxic materials in landfills. But it does make people on the left feel virtuous, I guess... never mind the expense or inconvenience for everyone else.

CelticRambler

dvdman1 wrote: »

Plastic bags and the likes shouldn't be produced in the 1st place, ban them outright

Also how much co2 does it take to produce them reusable bags, some cheap ones are loaded with plastic

According to the last comparison I saw (don't have the link to hand) the most environmentally damaging shopping bags are the re-usable cotton tote-type because ... they're made from cotton, one of the thirstiest crops on the planet, and mostly grown in places where water is scarce.

Irish Guitarist wrote: »

Tesco Bags For Life are absolute shit. They should be called 'Bag Until The Corner of A Pizza Box Rips It Into Shite'.

shanec1928 wrote: »

They have banned plastic bags in Kenya. Surly we can do it also.

It's a partial ban: they still provide proper, decent quality bags at the till, which I use all the time here at home (in France) because our local supermarkets' bags obviously come from the same supplier of crappy bags as Tesco. Ultimate irony: my Kenyan bags came from the French supermarket, Carrefour ... :rolleyes:

But even though you'll see precious few plastic bags in Kenya, the amount of plastic bottles! :eek::eek::eek:

YFlyer

listermint wrote: »

The reusable bags co2 production is nonsense most are kept for years going through thousands of uses.

Smacking a drum about plastic content is silly.

A few dozen uses more like.

tuxy

Does anyone else get that nostalgic feeling when they see a plastic shopping bag in a ditch. I remember driving through the country side in the 80s and it was one of the main features, part of our culture. But times do change and I have to accept we have moved on.

Boggles

_Kaiser_ wrote: »

It's like those godawful paper straws now.

I read recently that the ones used in McDonalds are not actually recyclable, unlike the plastic straws they replaced.

:pac:

Better Than Christ

I wonder if this will increase the street value of the six thousand bags for life currently residing in a drawer in my kitchen.

If nothing else, it might encourage the likes of me to remember to bring bags when I go shopping.

Ronaldinho

Stheno wrote: »

Just buy non plastic bags tbh

Better to buy a plastic bag and re-use it as much as possible before replacing.

Paper and cotton bags are even less environmentally friendly than plastic ones apparently.