OT carrier bag charge

[Tim Watts]

I must go on the lookout for some "car bags" (sure they must exist). Something that when full, produces a square flat base which has less tendency to fall over...

[Bill Wright]

I saw it in the Independent. I don't read any tabloids.

It was also in the Telegraph

and the BBC

So f*ck off.

Bill

[Another John]

Wha'?!?! You could have fooled me. Mind -- you're a bit of Daily Mail all by your own self, aren't you?

Your Mum would clip your blinkin' ear for that! _What_ part of Yorkshire are you from? We didn't learn that sort of behaviour in Bra'ford, I can tell you! Tch!

Best wishes John

[S Viemeister]

Something like this?

I've seen similar its elsewhere.

[Mike Barnes]

"packaged supermarket products should be entirely safe in re-used bags and present no threat to health".

[Adrian]

So, umm, how many people do you know who put loose, unwrapped raw meat or fish into the same plastic bag as fruit etc, then reuse that bag?

Bear in mind when answering that plastic bags for raw meat and fish are exempt from the 5p charge.

[Mike Barnes]

If you'll accept "rectangular" I have one from Sainsburys and one from Casino (France) which are like that. I improve the stability by using the hooks provided in the boot, which I believe are also known as "curry hooks", though mine have never been used for take-away food.

[DJC]

Reusable bags are fine if you shop by car. They are even ok if you deliberately set out to walk to the shops. But if you shop on the way home etc you tend to find yourself in a shop without a bag.

[News]

In message , Mike Barnes writes

We have two wheelie bins, one for recycle stuff, and one for the rest. Dust from the vac and the fire go straight in the 'other' bin. I hose it out, now and again. The bin, not the fire.

[PeterC]

I use a rucksack as sometimes the bus fails to turn up so it's then 2 miles home - not fun with carrier bags. There's sometimes a comment when I occasionally reuse a C&A bag - from people old enough to have shopped there.

[Martin Brown]

They don't appear to have one. They will however put a sticker on your bin warning that they will not collect it if dust/ash is not bagged.

All the ones I know insist on bagging dust and ash which spans Newcastle, Manchester and North Yorkshire to names specific ones.

It is interesting to note the wide variation of colours of bins with green bins here being for green waste and black ones for household. Salfords "green" garden waste bins are a hideous shade of shocking pink!

Actually my own NY is a lot less bolshy than the two major cities where they will refuse to empty bins at the very slightest excuse.

[charles]

That was the colour blindness test bag?

[Chris French]

I would tend to have some sort of bag anyway though (rucksack probably).

If not people will either stump up the 5p, or adjust their behaviour and tend to have a bag stuffed somewhere

[Chris French]

In message , News writes

I've no idea about what our LA says, but they don#t seem bothered about how the rubbish goes in the bin.

[Chris French]

In message , Martin Brown writes

We have black - rubbish, blue - recyclables, green - green waste.

My mum in a neighbouring authority has green for recyclables and brown for green waste, so I often get the stuff in the wrong bins.....

[Martin Brown]

Same here. Blue box and blue sack for paper/cardboard.

On holiday in Northumberland we discovered the green and black bin convention was exactly the opposite of that in North Yorkshire.

I guess originally green bins to blend into a rural setting.

[PeterC]

It does seem to be white and muddy grey.

[Clive George]

Note mine is in North Yorkshire. Bins are LA, not county.

Have you ever considered that they're just picking on you :-)

Which LA are you in?

[Capitol]

Local Tesco has put the bag recycling trolley outside the entrance to the shop! Checkout operators are not happy about bag charging as they get the abuse. I don't understand why paper bags were included. They seem strong enough in the USA, where double plastic bags are used for a gallon of milk purchase, but IME only one paper bag is adquately strong for 2 gallons.

[Chris French]

Well that's where our local ones normally are anyway. but I imagine that stop in a bit (anyway, they can now go in the general recycling bin here)

Yeah, but that will be a transitory thing, people will soon get used to it. As it happens I was in Tesco on Monday, lots people seemed to know about it and lots had brought their own bags. I didn't here any whinging