Plastic Bag 5p Charge

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buggi

Bird Saviour
Location
Solihull
His whole nose?
The whole straw from his whole nose. The group were just tourists, when they first started to pull it out, I don't think they realised what it was or how deep it went. It took a while to shift it, it must have gone all the way down his throat.
 
Have you all come to terms with it yet? Or has all been too much for you?
 
Bargain Booze gave me a bag without asking. I've stored it carefully in the cupboard. Normally I lob 'em straight in the bin.
 

subaqua

What’s the point
Location
Leytonstone
You wouldn't believe the lengths I've been going to to avoid the charge today.
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Panniers . work Brilliantly as do rucksacks . oh and some new age hippy thread bags we bought at eden Project last year for less than a quid each.

funnily enough the londis by us was giving out hemp bags a few years ago . still have mine.fits 8 cans of beer in it lovely. with room on top for a pack of paprika lays
 

vernon

Harder than Ronnie Pickering
Location
Meanwood, Leeds
Panniers . work Brilliantly as do rucksacks . oh and some new age hippy thread bags we bought at eden Project last year for less than a quid each.

funnily enough the londis by us was giving out hemp bags a few years ago . still have mine.fits 8 cans of beer in it lovely. with room on top for a pack of paprika lays

You haven't smoked them yet?
 

gbb

Squire
Location
Peterborough
Bit ironic when supermarkets tell us how they're reducing packaging and they're actually increasing it all the time.
Ive worked in the fruit packing industry for 15 years. Back then 50% was packed into a simple net with one wineglass label. Over the years theyve come up (rather the packaging industry has...and the supermarkets have galloped along with it) with ever more plastic packaging until now, M&S are probably going to move over to a heavy plastic bag with a net window...looks lovely, but non of which is recycleable, is far more expensive to manufacture, takes far more electric and compressed air to form, far more expensive to transport, ever more expensive machinery to form it...and we suspect...not one end buyer gives a monkeys about the end pack, only whats in it.
Maybe tomorrow I'll weigh one empty pack...I suspect it probably weighs the same as at least 5 carrier bags...all to hold 6 clementines.
 
... but they aren't really reporting the facts, surprise surprise.

Here is a link from a skeptical website that puts some simple facts down backed up with research.

Trans - "I'm a bear of little brain, and the mounting evidence of the last thirty years has flown straight over my head. But I feel comfortable with those thick Americans who have as little understanding of the world and science as I do.

"First amendment ... my right to spout my ignorance."
 
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