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...plastic boobs, butts and faces still ok...



(i must credit a local radio station for that one...)

Good, maybe the rest of this bag-happy country will follow suit.

My cloth bags and I will be waiting for the Revolution.

Sharpening pitchforks and FWOOSH, lighting torches, BWAHAHA!

Personally, I like the idea of charging a bit extra for plastic bags like they do in some European countries.

That program lasted about 2 years here...then they threw it out...failure. Te mpney went to the retailer, made no sense.

So it didn't dissuade people from using plastic bags? I was under the impression, regardless of where the money went, that they get customers to pay a little extra for the bags so that they won't use plastic as much.

The local supermarket does encourage the use of 'lifetime' bags. Pay a small sum for robust bags and when they wear out they will replace them for free. Today I forgot to take them and looking at the £120 worth of shopping on the conveyor belt the girl asked me if I needed free disposable bags. All I could say was 'well, I aint going to fuckin' juggle that lot to the car am I?'

Good... The plastic bags are a menace to the environment.
But be a bit wary of the reusable bags they can be a breeding ground for bacteria. I prefer paper whenever possible. Very useful, biodegradable, and very green these days.

I live in DC, and there's a 5 cent tax on every plastic bag. I don't know the exact statistics off the top of my head, but I know that there's been a significant reduction in the number of bags taken and also in the amount of litter in the Anacostia River.

here in ireland plastic bags are 22 cent..yeah you heard me right such a ripoff

dpgsoulja89 wrote:here in ireland plastic bags are 22 cent..yeah you heard me right such a ripoff

That's the first place I encountered that additional cost--in Dublin. I didn't mind it though. The grocery clerk even asked if I wanted a bag and felt bad about making me pay extra for it.

dpgsoulja89 wrote:here in ireland plastic bags are 22 cent..yeah you heard me right such a ripoff

I think it's great... More would be better