Re: Gordon Brown says stop using supermarket carrier bags

allan tracy <thunderbird57303@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Feb 29, 3:02 pm, Calum <com.gm...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Krustov wrote:
Just how are people supposed to get their shopping home ? .

Same way they do here in Ireland, where there's been a levy on plastic
bags for years, and which probably sees a lot more rain than the UK.

People just re-use their old carrier bags, or buy the heavier-duty "Bags
for Life" that all the supermarkets sell, which are replaced and
recycled free-of-charge when they wear out.

Unfortunately, the decline in the use of shopping bags has been more
than matched by a boom in the sales of waste-bin-liner bags.

Although my local authority recycles plastic bottles (we have a special bin
for every house) they will NOT accept plastic bags of any type in the
recycle bin. They don't say why, but I suspect that the common use of
biodegradable "plastic" bags is the problem. The biodegradable bags have a
very high starch content which makes them impossible to recycle.

So, rather than ban plastic bags, we should be banning biodegradable plastic
bags...

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