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[News] Bangladesh banned plastic bags in 2006 did I hear.
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So Baglessdesh.
McTavish
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- Nov 5, 2014
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It was actually 2002.
studio150
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Not the only ones, Tanzania have banned plastic bags entering the country.
Don't .... we'll have panic buying of bags for life or some snowflake rebellion saying I paid for a bag for life and you promised to replace it when it died!
Bold Seagull
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If you get to the tills and had your bag needs covered, there wouldn't be a need for a ban.
However, people prove time and time again they are simply dense and need their behaviour changed through taxation and eventually a ban.
I see one parent everyday with a large can of energy drink on the way to school, and another at pick. The sugar tax is going to have no impact on their quest for diabetes and eventual expensive treatment. We complain about a 'nanny state' but my goodness there are so many adults that need nannying it is untrue.
However, people prove time and time again they are simply dense and need their behaviour changed through taxation and eventually a ban.
I see one parent everyday with a large can of energy drink on the way to school, and another at pick. The sugar tax is going to have no impact on their quest for diabetes and eventual expensive treatment. We complain about a 'nanny state' but my goodness there are so many adults that need nannying it is untrue.
Icy Gull
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- Jul 5, 2003
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I see Sainsburys have stopped providing plastic bags for loose vegetables and now give you the option of buying re-usable ones. Money saving dicks could have replaced the plastic bags with paper ones. Not ideal to have loads of loose vegetables in your trolley and I’m fecked if I’m buying a fistful of re-usable ones. I’m half inclined to throw all loose vegetables into one re-usable bag and let the check out staff sort and weigh them! 
Cian
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I see Sainsburys have stopped providing plastic bags for loose vegetables and now give you the option of buying re-usable ones. Money saving dicks could have replaced the plastic bags with paper ones. Not ideal to have loads of loose vegetables in your trolley and I’m fecked if I’m buying a fistful of re-usable ones. I’m half inclined to throw all loose vegetables into one re-usable bag and let the check out staff sort and weigh them!
Interestingly, for food safety reasons there's plenty of people who say you should not use re-usable plastic bags for veg. Cloth that is washed frequently is OK
Soil bacteria will end up in the seams of the bag and you'll cross infect whatever you put in next time. Which may not be something you peel / wash well.
Flimsy plastic bags are taxed at 22c here, and bags for life at 70c. You start to remember to bring them with you pretty quickly at those rates! Tax came in in 2002.
vegster
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- May 5, 2008
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I see Sainsburys have stopped providing plastic bags for loose vegetables and now give you the option of buying re-usable ones. Money saving dicks could have replaced the plastic bags with paper ones. Not ideal to have loads of loose vegetables in your trolley and I’m fecked if I’m buying a fistful of re-usable ones. I’m half inclined to throw all loose vegetables into one re-usable bag and let the check out staff sort and weigh them!
Paper bags are the way to go, I'm sure it is within the whit of man to develop some kind of coating to toughen them up a little but still let them remain bio-degradeable ?
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Even more forward thinking than I gave them credit for then.
beorhthelm
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they have. however in the wisdom of the green lobby it wasnt sufficient to apply tax to plastic single use bags, but all single use bags. so you still pay the tax, there's no incentive to have a paper one coated or not.
Nottseagull
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In Kenya it's even worse - I believe it's actually illegal to possess one, even if it was purchased pre-ban!
I have this vision of Kenyans BURNING millions of their old bags in order to comply!
But why are these poor countries leading the field in this respect? I can understand Bangladesh because it's so so susceptible to rising sea levels, but the others?
crookie
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Rwanda has also banned them now I believe
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Lyndhurst 14
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New York finally catches up with a lot of other countries and started charging 5 cents for plastic bags from Ist March. Still a lot of States where there is no charge.
happypig
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In Kenya it's even worse - I believe it's actually illegal to possess one, even if it was purchased pre-ban!
I have this vision of Kenyans BURNING millions of their old bags in order to comply!
But why are these poor countries leading the field in this respect? I can understand Bangladesh because it's so so susceptible to rising sea levels, but the others?
Because they've got no food to put in them ?