5p for a carrier bag......!!

[Hillian1]

Tory party behind this I reckon.

Scandalous.

 

[hans kraay fan club]

About time.

 

[Papa Lazarou]

Tory party behind this I reckon.

Scandalous.

you get what you vote for etc

Hang your head in shame etc

 

[Albumen]

I'm sure you're fishing but that would mean them having a green policy, which they don't ("the greenest government ever" lies lies etc)

 

[Tony Le Mesmer]

Been using it in Wales for 5 years. About time England followed suit

 

[Man of Harveys]

Great news for the environment? Slightly in the way of a totally free market? Something that they've had in other European countries for years? Overall a decent, sensible idea?

Doesn't sound like the Tories to me.

 

[Ninja Elephant]

I think I read a stat that 140 million single use plastic bags were used in this country last year, if they all cost 5p the government would have raised an absolute fortune to not spend on the NHS, education or the emergency services.

 

[Nibble]

Why are they even still being manafactured? Should have been scrapped at least a decade ago.

 

[1234andcounting]

Is it really that difficult to take shopping bags with you when you go shopping?

 

[coagulantwolf]

I think I read a stat that 140 million single use plastic bags were used in this country last year, if they all cost 5p the government would have raised an absolute fortune to not spend on the NHS, education or the emergency services.

Try 7.6 billion single use carrier bags handed out last year. The money raised from this initiative will go to charities I believe, not the Government.

 

[Frutos]

I think I read a stat that 140 million single use plastic bags were used in this country last year, if they all cost 5p the government would have raised an absolute fortune to not spend on the NHS, education or the emergency services.

Not sure about other companies but my employers are giving all the money from the charge to charity, not the government.

 

[RandyWanger]

I'm all for this on the environmental factor, it's been this way on the continent for years. By the checkouts they leave the cardboard from deliveries so you can box up your groceries and carry them to your car.

 

[Hillian1]

Is it really that difficult to take shopping bags with you when you go shopping?

I've got Bags of Bags in my kitchen for re-use, it just keeps getting bigger as I always forget, must be the size of a small Elephant by now.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

Agree with this. Seems to work perfectly well on mainland Europe.

 

[glasfryn]

the government are missing a trick here, they could give bags to pensioners and ask them to stick them over their heads.
therby relieving them of having to payout any extra benifits, killing two birds with one stone so to speak

 

[Hastings gull]

Is it really that difficult to take shopping bags with you when you go shopping?

What is all the fuss about? Surely it is so easy to take your own bags and/or keep them in the car, should you decide to go into a supermarket on the spur of the moment. It just needs a little bit of organisation, with a basic will not to use the plastic bags.

 

[severnside gull]

Should've been done years ago. One of the few policies all political parties agree with.
Mind you I will now have to buy more plastic rubbish sacks instead of "recycling" shopping bags

 

[oneillco]

I'm amazed it's taken England so flippin' long to get around to this; it's been going for around 10 years in Ireland resulting in less rubbish in the streets and people thinking a bit more about unnecessary consumption...

 

[severnside gull]

the government are missing a trick here, they could give bags to pensioners and ask them to stick them over their heads.
therby relieving them of having to payout any extra benifits, killing two birds with one stone so to speak

Are you IDS in disguise?

 

[Hastings gull]

I'm amazed it's taken England so flippin' long to get around to this; it's been going for around 10 years in Ireland resulting in less rubbish in the streets and people thinking a bit more about unnecessary consumption...

Absolutely. It has been going elsewhere for years but we always seem so reluctant to change, despite the overwhelming evidence (rubbish.recycling etc) of the harm that these bags cause.