OT bags

On 19/12/13 10:21, Max Demian wrote:
"Tim+" wrote in message
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Only half agree. Without doubt, many (?most) people recycle their plastic
bags but I walk my dogs on a beach every morning and from Easter until the
autumn, the beach is littered with supermarket bags. Also, when I'm
running along country lanes the hedgerows and ditches are clogged with
bags. Anything that can be done to lessen this blight gets my vote.

It's perverse the way dog owners hang their bags of dog **** from branches.
They'll just stay the if the dog deposited its excrement on the ground it
would be gobbles up in a trice.

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On 19/12/13 11:22, Mizter T wrote:
On 19/12/2013 06:00, Bill Wright wrote:
It's time start saving your supermarket bags. From next October they
will be 5p each. This is because of the stupid greenies. I have a large
box in the basement and I put my bags in there. I use them for dog ****,
clinical waste, badly soiled laundry, bowls of food for freezing,
disposable nappies, collecting apples and tomatoes, all sorts of things.
When they are banned I will have to buy bags. These will be made from
much thicker plastic so will cause more waste. I've made enquiries and I
will be able to get bags for clinical waste from the NHS. This will cost
me nothing but will cost the taxpayers a lot, because everyone will get
onto it. The greenies are stupid ****s.

I think it is the duty of all right-thinking people to do all they can
to subvert and sabotage all greeny-influenced legislation. I go out of
my way to do this.

Couldn't disagree with you more.


And that is something I am actually concerned about. 99% of green
legislations is utter crap. And is becoming recognized as such.

This is good.

1% of it though, is worth having, and I am with you on this. Plastic
bags do more harm than good. Paper or hessian both work, and were what
we used before. Paper carrier bags with string handles? remember those?



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On Thu, 19 Dec 2013 06:00:57 +0000, Bill Wright
wrote:

It's time start saving your supermarket bags. From next October they
will be 5p each. This is because of the stupid greenies. I have a large
box in the basement and I put my bags in there. I use them for dog ****,
clinical waste, badly soiled laundry, bowls of food for freezing,
disposable nappies, collecting apples and tomatoes, all sorts of things.
When they are banned I will have to buy bags. These will be made from
much thicker plastic so will cause more waste. I've made enquiries and I
will be able to get bags for clinical waste from the NHS. This will cost
me nothing but will cost the taxpayers a lot, because everyone will get
onto it. The greenies are stupid ****s.

I think it is the duty of all right-thinking people to do all they can
to subvert and sabotage all greeny-influenced legislation. I go out of
my way to do this.

Bill

In Northern Ireland we have had the 5p levy on single-usecarrier bags
(paper as well as plastic) since April this year. It seems to be working
well.

This is the information about the levy that was published earlier this
year.
http://www.nidirect.gov.uk/baglevy

More detail:
http://www.doeni.gov.uk/index/protec...te/baglevy.htm


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On Thu, 19 Dec 2013 02:11:17 -0800 (PST), Jonathan
wrote:

On Thursday, December 19, 2013 8:01:17 AM UTC, Woody wrote:
"Bill Wright" wrote in message 's
time start saving your supermarket bags. From next October they
will be 5p
each. This is because of the stupid greenies. I have a large
box in the
basement and I put my bags in there. I use them for dog ****,
clinical
waste, badly soiled laundry, bowls of food for freezing,
disposable
nappies, collecting apples and tomatoes, all sorts of things.
When they
are banned I will have to buy bags. These will be made from
much thicker
plastic so will cause more waste. I've made enquiries and I
will be able
to get bags for clinical waste from the NHS. This will cost
me nothing but
will cost the taxpayers a lot, because everyone will get
onto it. The
greenies are stupid ****s.

I think it is the duty of all right-thinking
people to do all they can
to subvert and sabotage all greeny-influenced
legislation. I go out of
my way to do this.



The daft bit is that plastic could be replaced with recycled paper which
will, in time, biodegrade, but they are going to charge for them as well!

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By the way Bill, you forgot the newspapers that you put out in them for
recycling. Now there's a paradox if ever there was one.

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Apparently the energy costs of making paper bags is far higher than the flimsy plastic ones.

Which is part of the reason that paper carrier bags are subject to the
5p levy in Northern Ireland along with plastic ones.

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Huge wrote:
On 2013-12-19, Peter Duncanson wrote:
On Thu, 19 Dec 2013 06:00:57 +0000, Bill Wright
wrote:

It's time start saving your supermarket bags. From next October they
will be 5p each. This is because of the stupid greenies. I have a
large box in the basement and I put my bags in there. I use them
for dog ****, clinical waste, badly soiled laundry, bowls of food
for freezing, disposable nappies, collecting apples and tomatoes,
all sorts of things. When they are banned I will have to buy bags.
These will be made from much thicker plastic so will cause more
waste. I've made enquiries and I will be able to get bags for
clinical waste from the NHS. This will cost me nothing but will
cost the taxpayers a lot, because everyone will get onto it. The
greenies are stupid ****s.

I think it is the duty of all right-thinking people to do all they
can to subvert and sabotage all greeny-influenced legislation. I go
out of my way to do this.

Bill

In Northern Ireland we have had the 5p levy on single-usecarrier bags
(paper as well as plastic) since April this year. It seems to be
working well.

Define "working well". In Eire, which has had the levy for several
years, consumption of bags has risen, not fallen.

We weren't best pleased when given a paper bag for some newly purchased
books when it was ****ing with rain outside in Dublin some years ago.

Tim

On 19 Dec 2013 12:33:46 GMT, Huge wrote:

On 2013-12-19, Peter Duncanson wrote:
On Thu, 19 Dec 2013 06:00:57 +0000, Bill Wright
wrote:

It's time start saving your supermarket bags. From next October they
will be 5p each. This is because of the stupid greenies. I have a large
box in the basement and I put my bags in there. I use them for dog ****,
clinical waste, badly soiled laundry, bowls of food for freezing,
disposable nappies, collecting apples and tomatoes, all sorts of things.
When they are banned I will have to buy bags. These will be made from
much thicker plastic so will cause more waste. I've made enquiries and I
will be able to get bags for clinical waste from the NHS. This will cost
me nothing but will cost the taxpayers a lot, because everyone will get
onto it. The greenies are stupid ****s.

I think it is the duty of all right-thinking people to do all they can
to subvert and sabotage all greeny-influenced legislation. I go out of
my way to do this.

Bill

In Northern Ireland we have had the 5p levy on single-usecarrier bags
(paper as well as plastic) since April this year. It seems to be working
well.

Define "working well". In Eire, which has had the levy for several years,
consumption of bags has risen, not fallen.

In terms of single-use bags used the figures so far released for the
first three month period the usage seems to have dropped to about 25% of
what it was. On the basis of casual observation in the supermarket,
convenience stores and shops that I use I'd estimate the drop to be much
greater. People are using either their own bags or multiple-use bags
sold by the retailers, or are carrying small numbers of items unbagged.

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"Peter Duncanson" wrote in message
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In Northern Ireland we have had the 5p levy on single-usecarrier bags
(paper as well as plastic) since April this year.

Why is there a levy on paper bags which are biodegradable? If the levy is
attempt to reduce the use of plastic bags because they are not
biodegradable, then why are supermarkets not encouraged to supply
alternative paper single-use bags which do not suffer from the problem?

I resent having to carry a bulky bag-for-life with me on the off-chance that
I might want to buy something. Too much of modern life requires you to plan
ahead (bag for life, buying railway tickets in advance to get best fare,
etc) instead of allowing you to be impulsive and spur-of-the-moment.

We always re-use supermarket carriers for lining rubbish bins (eg in the
kitchen, one for general landfill rubbish like packaging, and another for
food waste and vegetable peelings that can be composted) as a free
alternative to buying a roll of bin bags. Once the levy is introduced, quite
apart from having to buy a large number of bags for life, to accommodate
everything that we buy at one go, we'll have to spend even more money buying
rolls of binliner bags that we used to get for free as single-use carrier
bags.

And all because some plebs can't be arsed to throw away their carrier bags
in the bin after using them.

On 19/12/2013 13:34, NY wrote:
"Peter Duncanson" wrote in message
...
In Northern Ireland we have had the 5p levy on single-usecarrier bags
(paper as well as plastic) since April this year.

Why is there a levy on paper bags which are biodegradable? If the levy
is attempt to reduce the use of plastic bags because they are not
biodegradable, then why are supermarkets not encouraged to supply
alternative paper single-use bags which do not suffer from the problem?

Because the paper bags do not biodegrade in modern rubbish tips. They
actually endure as long as plastic ones in the anaerobic, dark
conditions there. The only benefit is that if you use a paper bag to
wrap your dog**** in before hanging it on the hedge, it will quickly
fall apart, letting the normal biological processes take care of the
excrement.

Paper bags also cause more air pollution and CO2 to be emitted during
their manufacture and transport than plastic.

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On 19/12/2013 07:41, harryagain wrote:

Why don'tyou take a proper bag to the supermarket when shopping or don't you
have the foresight?

I keep around 6 laundry bags (each approx 2x carrier bag capacity) in
the back of the car and use them 4/5 years before they have to be
chucked away. 95% of my supermarket shopping is transported in these bags.
Example - smallest size in link
http://tinyurl.com/ptufj8m


Supermarket bags are quite unsuitable for most of the uses you put them to
anyway.

I do recycle all supermarket bags that I do get in the same way as Bill
does.

From what I've read, in countries that have introduced charging the
usage has gone down but sales of other plastic bags has risen. I doubt
if any less plastic goes to land fill.

If the greenies really want to save the planet let them campaign to make
all unsoliced snail junk mail illegal. I shred all the leaflets and
junk that comes through my letter box and compost it. I get a sackful of
paper per month (7 A4 sheets of glossy paper so far today and the
postman hasn't made a delivery yet).


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On Thu, 19 Dec 2013 13:34:54 -0000, "NY" wrote:

"Peter Duncanson" wrote in message
.. .

Too much of modern life requires you to plan
ahead

No - quite the reverse! Life has always been that way. Only modernity
has permitted laziness.
It's part of evolution that the fittest always look ahead. That's why
the woman in Melbourne walked into the harbour when using Facebook.