Our council are absolutely useless at giving out information. I can only assume that they employ morons. When I first moved here, I was constantly emailing them to find out what was and wan’t recyclable (according to them). They give the main list on their website but do not go into enough detail.
For instance, they say you can recycle foil but does that include printed foil such as coffee refills or crisp bags. It took them two years to inform us that we could recycle the lids off jars.
If it was my site, I would list everything along with the things you cannot recycle.
So here in NI we have had the 10p single use bag for a few years more then you guys
Only with ours, we were told it was a tax, with the majority of the money raised going to the water board ( we don’t pay for water or sewage here)
Since the day the charge was implemented Ive never paid for a bag, I refuse because the government hasn’t the balls to implement the charges it needs to keep us safe and healthy ( clean water)
I agree to some extent that their needs to be a charge for single use plastic bags, but why is it the consumer only getting hit?
I work in veg production, in an 8 hour day we must send out 200 plus single use bags and dispose for another 20/50
Think about how your food is sent around the world, its all in plastic
why don’t they just do away with plastic bags altogether. I have 2 really strong foldaway bags that fit in my handbag and hold loads. They fold up really tiny.
I’ve got a car boot full of ‘bags for life’. Every time I go to a supermarket I end up buying more than I can carry and my bag is in the car boot, so I buy yet another one. At least I don’t throw them away.
Or ban them altogether and have brown paper ones instead…I remember years ago I think it was Safeway offered big brown paper bags…might not have been them could have been Fine Fare anyway one of them.
Several supermarkets did big plastic boxes, had special trollies for them. I lamented the fact sainsburys stopped, I still use them all these years later they make excellent washing baskets, garden trugs, dog toy box, tool carrier. I can’t see them ever breaking down.
I read about that too. But it’s a bit misleading. It’s a small percentage of plastic mixed with bitumen. But as is said, don’t let facts get in the way of a good story.
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