Orange Shed Charging For Carrier Bags!

[JohnPW]

If they're going to charge for them separately, then the bags should plain with no shop names or logos.

But then free bags are not actually free either, you're still paying to advertise the shop, although I would guess it's much much less than 5p per bag.

 

[graduate_owner]

I remember a college friend of mine who always insisted on turning carrier bags inside-out if they had advertising on them, as he objected to providing free advertising for the shop. That was in the late 60s.

I do agree with the idea put forward by MMUK. We don't usually need plastic anyway as paper will do - quite right. And paper is often better - how often have you tried opening a sealed plastic bag which will not tear, even with teeth? And when you finally get it open, it then decides to tear as soon as you look at it so the contents spill out anyway.

Since plastics are a derivative of the petrochemical industry, perhaps the cost of plastic wrapping will spiral out of control when the world recession is over, i.e. when countries like China start using crude oil at a rate of knots and cause a potential shortage, and the OPEC countries can once again start charging whatever they like. The trouble is we'll all pay more at the pumps (won't that be a novelty?)

Roll on cost effective battery cars. They're just too expensive as yet.
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[Jonzjob]

Now before you go and chop down all the trees so that you can have your paper bags, just think back to what I said about about getting the plastic out of the Pacific sea!

Paper means wood pulp and do you think that it grows on trees like money does :roll: :roll:

And also, before you start crying into your Kleenex tissues. on't forget that they don't use recycled paper. They cut down new, or old, trees for their paper :mrgreen: :mrgreen: