OT carrier bag charge

[charles]

As described by Bill Bryson in "Notes from a Small Island", although he was actually commenting on the bushes outside Liverpoll Station rather than rural hedges

[Dave Plowman (News)]

Experience in other countries does seem to suggest their use has fallen dramatically after charging started. Although not sure if it lists how many extra bin bags are in use. Or sales of s**t bags for those with dogs.

I've been using decent re-usable ones for years. Keep them in the car boot. Mainly because they are strong enough for the job. You only need one expensive bottle to break when a bag fails to realise the sense in this. ;-)

[Another John]

If this "stupid idea" reduces the number of carrier bags blowing in the trees up to a mile from our local tip, from 000s to shall I say 00s, then it will have been worthwhile.

It's not a stupid idea Bill: it's the only way, in the dimension of plastic bags, of counteracting stupid people.

And BTW Bill: please, PLEASEn PUH-LEASE stop reading the Daily Mail (or whatever tabloid you got the stupid idea, above, from).

John

[Sam Plusnet]

It would make a great Daily Mail-style headline.

Apart from that, no reason at all.

[Clive George]

How many LAs use wheelie bins these days? They don't need a tied plastic bag.

[Clive George]

What's wrong with providing your own rather sturdier bag? I'd use a rucksack, or there's the classic shopping trolley.

[Peter Parry]

[Chris French]

In message , Martin Brown writes

Well, going on the figures where they have already had such a charge, it's seems quite likely.

[NY]

It's not whether you can carry them in a pocket that's the problem. It's remembering to put it in your pocket when you get out of your car, especially if you hadn't even intended to go shopping and then happen to see a supermarket and think "I'll just get X" which soon turns into load of other things as well.

When I bought a few things in Morrisons this evening, using my own shopping bag which I found in the car boot, I used a self-service till and I noticed that the till asked me how many bags I'd have use (even though it asked me up front whether I was using my own bag to which I'm sure I answered yes). What would have stopped me saying I'd used fewer Morrisons bags that I really had? Spots checks by staff?

[ARW]

As he only allows white English visitors to his house so this must be true.

[ARW]

They consist of astro turf and gravel.

[Mr Pounder Esquire]

Aren;t they on maintance contracts we have blocks of houses were this applies it's usually a rip off service charge of ?50+ per month.

Doubtful as I've seen the owners of the mobile homes working on their gardens.

[Mr Pounder Esquire]

Not the sites that I've visited.

[Mr Pounder Esquire]

I have a wheelie bin liner in the plastic/glass/tin bin and one in the gardening bin. They stop the inside of the bin getting full of shit. We put the everyday rubbish in sealed plastic bags and put it in the errrrrrr, every day wheelie bin.

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[Mike Barnes]

+1

The bags I bought eight years ago are showing no signs of giving up.

I also find it quicker and easier to transfer shopping in two or three decent bags than a dozen flimsy ones, and stuff doesn't escape in the boot.

[Martin Brown]

Tell that to mine which slapped such a notice on my wheelie bin.

[Mike Barnes]

Our council uses wheelie bins (four different ones), and I've not heard anything about tied plastic bags for dust. Does "dust" mean from the vacuum cleaner or from the fire grate?

[Bod]

[alan_m]

Now petrol prices are lower I'm saving a couple of hundred litres in my bath.

[Clive George]

There's my LA's page on the matter.

Got the equivalent for your LA?

If yours says tied plastic bags, the next question is which is more popular. You did say "almost every local authority" - did you actually mean "my local authority"?