I thought most supermarkets were going to charge 5p for plastic carrier bags five years ago.
Surely the answer is to make paper bags, like they used to be.
I am the worst for taking carrier bags and supermarkets. When I get home, I then use the bag to carry lunch for work.
Then I use it to contain all the household waste, instead of one of those black bin liners.
So a paper carrier bag would presumably rot very quickly if buried in a landfill site.
As far as I know, all my household rubbish has to be wrapped in something before it goes into the bin which the council empty.
What else is available apart from plastic bags?
The quality of plastic bags has got worse in recent years, presumably to help the environment. But if I pay 5p for a carrier, and it breaks and all my shopping falls out, do I get a refund? Or a replacement? And any damaged foodstuff replaced?
Can plastic bags be recycled to make anything?
Plastic bottles can be used to make some very nice loft insulation.
We never asked to have plastic bags instead of paper ones. We have very little control in what we throw away.
Many goods come with totally unnecessary packaging that can't easily be recycled.
An example is a new video or dvd player. It comes in a cardboard box. Fair enough, I can use that again for something, and as far as I know it's recyclable and degradable. There will be big chunks of polystyrene. Totally useless, and messy. There will also be plastic bags, which the chunks of polystyrene will be chucked into then thrown away.
I wonder if some clean rags wrapped around the video player would do just as well. I can use the rags at home for cleaning things, then throw them away when they're no good.
I remember getting money back on Lucozade bottles. An incentive to recycle that worked.
Though we can chuck glass bottles into a recycling bottle bank, if they were returned to the supplier, they could be cleaned and used again, without having to waste resources in making new ones.
Incidently, I didn't realise on those bottle banks, all the different holes for different colour glass, and it all ends up in one big container!
Surely the answer is to make paper bags, like they used to be.
I am the worst for taking carrier bags and supermarkets. When I get home, I then use the bag to carry lunch for work.
Then I use it to contain all the household waste, instead of one of those black bin liners.
So a paper carrier bag would presumably rot very quickly if buried in a landfill site.
As far as I know, all my household rubbish has to be wrapped in something before it goes into the bin which the council empty.
What else is available apart from plastic bags?
The quality of plastic bags has got worse in recent years, presumably to help the environment. But if I pay 5p for a carrier, and it breaks and all my shopping falls out, do I get a refund? Or a replacement? And any damaged foodstuff replaced?
Can plastic bags be recycled to make anything?
Plastic bottles can be used to make some very nice loft insulation.
We never asked to have plastic bags instead of paper ones. We have very little control in what we throw away.
Many goods come with totally unnecessary packaging that can't easily be recycled.
An example is a new video or dvd player. It comes in a cardboard box. Fair enough, I can use that again for something, and as far as I know it's recyclable and degradable. There will be big chunks of polystyrene. Totally useless, and messy. There will also be plastic bags, which the chunks of polystyrene will be chucked into then thrown away.
I wonder if some clean rags wrapped around the video player would do just as well. I can use the rags at home for cleaning things, then throw them away when they're no good.
I remember getting money back on Lucozade bottles. An incentive to recycle that worked.
Though we can chuck glass bottles into a recycling bottle bank, if they were returned to the supplier, they could be cleaned and used again, without having to waste resources in making new ones.
Incidently, I didn't realise on those bottle banks, all the different holes for different colour glass, and it all ends up in one big container!