What should be done about plastic bags?
 

Re: What should be done about plastic bags?
 

There should be more facilities to recycle them, it's essentially lose/lose unless you go the way of a heavy duty reusable plastic bag, but these tend to smell after a few uses, can't do paper unless it comes from recycled as you'd be chopping down more trees, you really can't win I don't think.

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Replace many of them with cornstarch ones that safely biodegrade, then slap a tax on people that use them "to protect the environment".

That's what they did here in Wales.

Joined-up thinking from the Welsh Assembly? Don't be daft!

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Huh? What do you put in them? I've got heavy duty bags that I've been using for years without any problem...

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Tax them at 50p a bag and use the money for the NHS, Lets see how many are used then:D

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General shopping... They always start to smell after a while for me

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I can't say I ever noticed. Perhaps you need to stop sniffing your plastic bags? :erm: :p:

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I have been using the same reuseable Tesco bags since they introduced them several years ago and have never had to clean them and they never smell.

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I read somewhere that reuseable bags become sources of infection.

The official advice was to use single use plastic bags.

I mentioned it in another thread about plastic bags in this forum I believe.

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Yes same here but l suppose it depends on what is put in then.:D

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we use the carrier bags from our weekly shop as bin liners, saves buying bin liners.

Although supermarket carrier bags are so thin these days they are barely good enough to get groceries from car into house :(

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thats what we do saves a heap.

If they recycled into plastic products there no issue. Its the country problem we not enough reclycling depots. Result we heavily still using landfill sites due to the problem.

this old link 2009 but highlight the lack recycling plants in our country.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/gre...-MPs-warn.html

Re: What should be done about plastic bags?
 

Landfill or burn them.

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Supermarkets used to leave empty cardboard boxes near the tills to use instead of bags. But they stopped a few years ago.

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Tesco near me still do that.