egafd.com

As someone who's worked in a plastics/polythene factory for 20years , when all the greenies come out shouting "it'll take over 500 years for this to breakdown in landfill" how the fuck have they got to that conclusion ??? Whoevers "theory" that is must be a proper monkey-spunker , as polyethylene isn't 100 years old , so what tests they run ??? JJ .
Just to do my bit i keep half-a-dozen said bags in the boot of 35+mpg estate and a couple of cardboard boxes , if you ask real nice in my local tesco's you get a rather sweet brunnette piece , sorry young lady to pack my bags/boxes in situ' !wink!

Every week I get at least a couple of charity bags through my letter box.

When I have anything suitable I support collections direct by charities but never when they say
xxxx company collecting on behalf of yyyy charity
and we will donate zz % to the charity.

If I have nothing I leave the bag out for reuse but most times they are still on my door step at 6pm.

I keep a few to use for excess garden rubbish etc but most end up unused as rubbish.

M&S charge now but i think if you buy something you get one free.

Actually, in Beijing, we also pay for supermarket carrier bags. They are plastic. And we also often carry pro-environment bags, so that we don't need to pay for plastic bags all the time.~~`

Probably showing my age but this was done over here years ago.

It stopped because being green wasn't a concern but I always remember my folks saying don't forget to take a bag with you because it saved money.

Some will piss and moan about it if it did come in, they always do, but it would work and people would get used to it eventually.

The only problem if introduced would be the usual stealth tax blah blah's, 'green' Dave and the whoops-a-daisy clan saying we would never introduce such a thing (until after elected) etc.

Does anyone really give a toss about the environment in the current economic conditions? Most people just want to get by, all the green rubbish is yesterday's news for all but the few. The country can't afford to be that green, especially when whatever we do is negated 100 fold by the emerging economies.

It's an excellent idea, Sandie- and it is happening here in those towns small and isolated enough for everyone to be shamed into following suit. Hay on Wye on the Welsh border is a good example.

JonnyHungwell wrote:

> Does anyone really give a toss about the environment in the
> current economic conditions?

Yes lots do, although I must admit I am not one to do everything I should and the current economic conditions shouldn't really come into it.

I don't do as much as I should simply because I pay the council to do it and will only do the full recycle when they pay me for doing what I am currently paying others to do.


> Most people just want to get by, all the green rubbish is yesterday's news for all but the few.

It's not, in fact more are becoming green, as I understand it, there are even financial motivations for becoming greener.

> The country can't afford to be that green,

Speculate to accumulate is always worth doing, even when it has to be limited like now.


>especially when whatever we do is negated 100 fold by the emerging economies.

The do nothing because of what others do I find baffling if it was used to turn the tables on things like the economy (it's America's fault guv) I would soon become boring.