[Esqui]

There was a vox pop on the Beeb earlier.
Young man with vacant eyes outside a Sainsbury's local speKing his bRanEs says that he can't see that 5p will make much of a difference to the environment...

Feck. Unpack that. He sees the world so much in terms of himself that he can't even comprehend that other people will pay the 5p charge as well, millions of times, so the money going to charity will, at first, be considerable. It's only about him. That sums up the TPA, does it not.

I know for a fact that Sainsbury locals sell little foldaway bags for £1. So the 21st time he uses it he's in profit, plus he's got a little bag for other occasions...

When I'm in France I don't have the choice - no bags in the supermarkets - so I make the huge intellectual leap to - wait for it - take a bag with me! In fact, just like I do in England. Of course it's so hard that I have to lie down with a copy of the Express over my head afterwards.

Mm, I always take bags with me when I go to the supermarket - whether or not they give out free bags. As well as the obvious environmental benefits, it helps somewhat for budgeting: if I've only brought three bags with me, I'm not going to be able to carry that extra bottle of pop home.

[Malcolm Armsteen]

I've got about 20 or 30 of the canvas foldaway bags. They're enormously useful, apart from shopping. We use them for packing on the journeys to & from France, fill them up with stuff to come back to Blighty, when they get a bit old and tatty they become semi-permanent storage in the loft, or even used for carrying small firewood. About £2 a pop. Last for years. Ditto the bottle carrier ones.

Then there's the big hessian bags - I like to take those shopping to the farm shop or market. Very useful. I've even got a nice purple one from the local lavender farm...





I'm still after the elephant one...

[The Weeping Angel]

So do I. Although it does get somewhat irritating when shop assistants keep asking me do I want a bag

[Fozzy]

One consolation, as the Mail is trying to take all the credit for the plastic bag charge, that's one less source of publicity for the TPA.

[Paul]

Shoppers to be charged 5p for a plastic bag: Victory for Mail campaign as stores are ordered to act



Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... z2ez72kr5S" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

How was I completely unaware of this daily mail campaign ? I thought porn was the mails obsession.

- jason, hartlepool, 13/9/2013 17:57
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This is a first , the D M supporting a long standing Lib Dem policy.

- Anne, West Midlands, United Kingdom, 14/9/2013 1:40
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[shyamz]

Hang on, I'm certain I can recall the mail getting very annoyed about plastic bage charges in the past and that they saw it as an unfair tax on shoppers or some such nonsense.

When did they change their minds? And when did they start caring about the environment?

[Bones McCoy]

Hang on, I'm certain I can recall the mail getting very annoyed about plastic bage charges in the past and that they saw it as an unfair tax on shoppers or some such nonsense.

When did they change their minds? And when did they start caring about the environment?

In the world of the rightist press:
Extra charges for stuff can't be called a tax anymore.
Because that would be like the bedroom tax which isn't a tax as any fool knows.

[Andy McDandy]

No, in the world of the rightist press, Other People should do/pay for this, and PLU should just do whatever we want.

[Paul]

I've got about 20 or 30 of the canvas foldaway bags. They're enormously useful, apart from shopping. We use them for packing on the journeys to & from France, fill them up with stuff to come back to Blighty, when they get a bit old and tatty they become semi-permanent storage in the loft, or even used for carrying small firewood. About £2 a pop. Last for years. Ditto the bottle carrier ones.

Then there's the big hessian bags - I like to take those shopping to the farm shop or market. Very useful. I've even got a nice purple one from the local lavender farm...





I'm still after the elephant one...

I have the very same, if you are desperate.

[Malcolm Armsteen]

I just haven't got round to buying one yet, I'm still completing my set from French supermarkets...

[Daley Mayle]

There's a bloke in an anorak somewhere collecting all the pre-2015 placky bags.

I do have a mint condition 1981 Buzby the Telephone Bird bag that's got to be worth a fiver.

[Kreuzberger]

Or the ubiquitous IKEA blue bag. They're only ten bob a pop and, if you meet someone you know, you can always say you were only in there for candles. Easy!

[Big Arnold]

I've got a very small collection of airline bags, two from long gone airlines. British Californian and Eastern Airlines.

[MisterMuncher]

I presume there's some bellend with a stock of "vest" one-use carrier bags to sell at 4p, in the manner of the idiots who stocked up on incandescent bulbs before CFLs replaced them.

[shyamz]

I use a TopShop Clash bag I've had for years - here's one that was on Ebay a while ago,



And a cream colored one from the Japanese sock shop Tabio that they were giving away with purchases on their 3rd anniversary. It has a pink sumi-style sock on it and Japanese writing.

Swag.