Reply to: Ban on the use of plastic bags in the UK

[Bagpuss]

Maybe you are an uglier, less intelligent version of me?

Maybe, but given the evidence, almost definitely not

[PRC1964]

reusable plastic string bag thingies are the answer

A better answer is to do the shopping online. It's a shame though that they deliver it in 10 times as many plastic bags as I'd have used. You'd have thought they could just stick it all in a crate and empty that when they get to your house.

[DimPrawn]

Bizzare, that was my reaction on hearing this on Breakfast news.

Maybe you are an uglier, less intelligent version of me?

[DimPrawn]

So much control of peoples lives.

Every single thing you own or do is being watched, monitored, charged for and banned.

[Bagpuss]

FFS, I use old carrier bags to line my bins at home to save buying bin liners.

Now they ban carrier bags, I'll just have to buy bin liners.

Where's the saving?

Bizzare, that was my reaction on hearing this on Breakfast news.

[Damp Cave]

What the hell

is wrong with these ninnies?

[cailin maith]

Doesn't the sick leak through the holes?

Much less than a paper bag.

[SueEllen]

Doesn't the sick leak through the holes?

All plastic bags have a small hole or two in them anyway, so if you don't use two they leak.

[PerlOfWisdom]

reusable plastic string bag thingies are the answer

Doesn't the sick leak through the holes?

[SueEllen]

reusable plastic string bag thingies are the answer

String bags are carp.

Anyway I've gotten so fed up of those thin bags from supermarkets filling my house and bin, I've taken to reusing thicker bags anyway.

[Pondlife]

Because 99.9% of people don't do that.

tim

I do.

What I object to is the rest of the needless plastic packaging that accompanies everything you buy.

Our plastic recycling bin fills up way faster than the others (paper, glass).

[Troll]

reusable plastic string bag thingies are the answer

[VectraMan]

There's a stroppy woman at the Tesco Express near work who never wants to give me a bag, and then when I ask for one she says "you will reuse it won't you".

I just want a bag because I've got more stuff that I can carry in my hands. It can be made from squirrels for all I care.

[tim123]

FFS, I use old carrier bags to line my bins at home to save buying bin liners.

Now they ban carrier bags, I'll just have to buy bin liners.

Where's the saving?

Because 99.9% of people don't do that.

tim

[cailin maith]

We have this in Ireland - It's very inconvenient if you are hungover and need a plastic bag to be into.... the paper ones disintegrate...