5p on plastic bags

What a sensible idea Jendurham I use them for recycling why not the bins. It's obvious when someone gives you the idea isn't? Thanks.

The charity bags which come through the door at least weekly make excellent swing bin liners. (I did try to stop them, but they still kept coming)

I have to shop at Migros in Geneva occasionally. They stopped giving the plastic bags and only sold heavy duty ones at 10SF . Concentrated the mind easily. Now I buy the 10 p ones and take a few over as the big bags hold too much and I like a more evenly balanced load.

We may all be agreed that we have no problem with this but DH has been on a number of other forums where people seem to equate the right to as many free plastic bags at the till as a Himan Right up there with freedom from oppression and expression and the right to life.

Feel very sorry for people whose life view is so limited that they can think like this, but it helps to be reminded that however much we agree, most of us can remember life before free plastic bags while for many the thought of having to reuse a plastic bag is as terrifying a thought as eating food a day after its sell by date!

The fuss I am talking about, Ana, is not on this forum but the general squawking about the issue from a lot of sources. Grans are much more sensible

Oh I see, sorry - I hadn't seen any of that! Not keeping up with the news, obviously...

I think the 5p charge for a bag is a great idea, I always carry plactic bags in my handbag........something useful in there for once.
Using bags 'for other purposes' when you get them home still usually ends up with them going into landfill eventually.
Gransnet should have a bag designing competition and we could lead the way in promoting re-using bags.

I have heaps of reusable bags mostly lying around my car. I heard some pompous git from the Taxpayers Alliance complaining that this 5p was a tax. No it isn't a tax. It's a purchase which the shopper will have the option to make or otherwise. I am a taxpayer and that organisation certainly doesn't represent me.

Bluebell, the supermarkets in Wales choose a charity to donate the money to, example Tesco to RSPB