What should be done about plastic bags?
19-03-2012, 02:40
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What should be done about plastic bags?
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The European Commission is to publish proposals in the spring designed to reduce the number of plastic bags used in Europe each year. Most of the 15,000 people who took part in a public consultation favoured an outright ban - but what are the options?
Every year 800,000 tons of so-called single-use plastic bags are used in the European Union - the average EU citizen used 191 of them in 2010, the Commission says, and only 6% were recycled.
More than four billion bags are thrown away each year.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-17027990
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19-03-2012, 09:01
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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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19-03-2012, 10:08
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Re: What should be done about plastic bags?
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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19-03-2012, 10:18
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Re: What should be done about plastic bags?
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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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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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19-03-2012, 10:20
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Re: What should be done about plastic bags?
Tax them at 50p a bag and use the money for the NHS, Lets see how many are used then 
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Re: What should be done about plastic bags?
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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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General shopping... They always start to smell after a while for me
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19-03-2012, 11:04
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Re: What should be done about plastic bags?
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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?  
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19-03-2012, 11:25
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Re: What should be done about plastic bags?
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General shopping... They always start to smell after a while for me
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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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19-03-2012, 11:26
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Re: What should be done about plastic bags?
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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19-03-2012, 11:32
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Re: What should be done about plastic bags?
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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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Yes same here but l suppose it depends on what is put in then.
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19-03-2012, 13:17
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Re: What should be done about plastic bags?
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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19-03-2012, 13:29
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Re: What should be done about plastic bags?
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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 |
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
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19-03-2012, 13:31
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Re: What should be done about plastic bags?
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What should be done about plastic bags?
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Landfill or burn them.
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19-03-2012, 13:35
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Re: What should be done about plastic bags?
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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19-03-2012, 14:34
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Re: What should be done about plastic bags?
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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.
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