Apparently the Government plan to bring in a law to charge us for using plastic bags.
I know all the ecological reasons and I don't disagree with them but the thing that doesn't make any sense to me is that the stuff we put in our plastic bags are themselves plastic milk bottles, plastic ketchup bottles, plastic egg boxes and a million and one other plastic items!
It also amuses me that they estimate 80% of the population are going to stop using the plastic bags because they will not pay 5p for them.
I don't know how much shopping you get at the local supermarket but how hard up must you be to save yourself say 40p a week by either stuffing your pockets with 8 old plastic bags to be reused or carry around some hippy 'bag for life' from home to the car, car to the store, store to the car, car to home, forever and ever! Let's face it, it's far easier just to pay some of the small change in your pocket and be done with it.
Why the fuck the government is worried about plastic bags, whilst completely ignoring all the rest of the shopping consumables contained in (or smothered by) plastics that we put into our shopping trolleys is completely beyond my understanding - not to mention the massive carbon footprint we leave when driving back and forth to our local Tesco / Asda / Morrisons, etc.
What do you think?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-24088523
I know all the ecological reasons and I don't disagree with them but the thing that doesn't make any sense to me is that the stuff we put in our plastic bags are themselves plastic milk bottles, plastic ketchup bottles, plastic egg boxes and a million and one other plastic items!
It also amuses me that they estimate 80% of the population are going to stop using the plastic bags because they will not pay 5p for them.
I don't know how much shopping you get at the local supermarket but how hard up must you be to save yourself say 40p a week by either stuffing your pockets with 8 old plastic bags to be reused or carry around some hippy 'bag for life' from home to the car, car to the store, store to the car, car to home, forever and ever! Let's face it, it's far easier just to pay some of the small change in your pocket and be done with it.
Why the fuck the government is worried about plastic bags, whilst completely ignoring all the rest of the shopping consumables contained in (or smothered by) plastics that we put into our shopping trolleys is completely beyond my understanding - not to mention the massive carbon footprint we leave when driving back and forth to our local Tesco / Asda / Morrisons, etc.
What do you think?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-24088523