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Don't forget your shopping bags today...
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supercrutch | Report | 5 Oct 2015 23:12 |
You shouldn't be buying them Joy, that's the point! |
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Sylvia | Report | 5 Oct 2015 23:12 |
I know what my grandad would say if he was alive. He used to turn carrier bags inside out if they had the name of the shop on them. He would not pay for a carrier bag to advertise for the shop. :-) |
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Lynda ~ | Report | 5 Oct 2015 23:14 |
For me it's not about the 5p, I just don't think the whole thing has been thought through. |
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supercrutch | Report | 5 Oct 2015 23:16 |
Where our money goes for plastic bag charges: |
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Lynda ~ | Report | 5 Oct 2015 23:20 |
Just had a thought, yonks ago, we had paper carrier bags, then along came plastic ones, why can't shops go back to those, even if they do charge, much better. |
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JoyBoroAngel | Report | 5 Oct 2015 23:21 |
They recon it take 500 years for a carrier bag to biodegrade |
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Sylvia | Report | 5 Oct 2015 23:24 |
And how would they know it takes 500 years to biodegrade. :-D |
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JoyBoroAngel | Report | 5 Oct 2015 23:26 |
Exactly Sylvia :-D :-D |
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Sylvia | Report | 5 Oct 2015 23:33 |
Joy, you and your son have a better idea how long carrier bags take to disintegrate . :-D |
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Lynda ~ | Report | 5 Oct 2015 23:37 |
If supermarkets were serious about helping the planet, they wouldn't wrap foods like broccoli and cucumbers, to name just two in plastic, there is no need to do that. |
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JoyBoroAngel | Report | 5 Oct 2015 23:37 |
Well we know now Sylvia |
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Guinevere | Report | 6 Oct 2015 05:54 |
Someone said earlier that they use supermarket bags as bin liners. We do that as well - but now we'll have to buy them. So we'll be sending exactly the same number to landfill. |
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Dermot | Report | 6 Oct 2015 09:40 |
Shoplifting Plastic Bags - who will be the first to be caught in this dreadful act? :-0 |
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°o.OOº°‘¨Claire in Wales¨‘°ºOO.o° | Report | 6 Oct 2015 09:59 |
I've heard most of these comments before and most of them out of my own mouth. |
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GlasgowLass | Report | 6 Oct 2015 11:25 |
Scotland's regulations are also tighter than the 5p which has been introduced in England. |
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Gwyn in Kent | Report | 6 Oct 2015 13:57 |
I generally take plastic bags to re-use when shopping, but will probably now use sturdier bought ones, so that they can be used many more times. |
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Lynda ~ | Report | 6 Oct 2015 15:30 |
"Take an old baag shopping" Love it :-D But you'd be the last person who I'd imagine suited that bag Gwyn :-D By the way, how is your beautiful Grandson, not a little boy now eh? |
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+++DetEcTive+++ | Report | 6 Oct 2015 16:42 |
Today our garden centre has a notice up re the 5p charges. They added that 'some' would be donated to a named local charity. |
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+++DetEcTive+++ | Report | 6 Oct 2015 17:15 |
Daft, isn't it? Apart from compost which went from the trolley to the car boot, the other items (3 packets of seeds) fitted in my handbag. I'd have probably turned down a bag even if it was free. |
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JoyLouise | Report | 6 Oct 2015 17:53 |
I bought a small jute bag from Holland and Barrett many years ago and it's still going strong. When I was in Wales a couple of years ago I discovered that we had to pay for a bag so I bought a large strong jute one in Tesco. I was elsewhere when I realised I had forgotten it so bought another strong jute one. Someone bought me a rather pretty one too so now I'm a bag lady. |