Got a few bits from the supermarket this morning and at the checkout i asked the bint serving if i could possibly have a carrier bag to put my goods in.Well,the look she gave me couldn't have been worse if i had gone round to her gaff,put her cat in the microwave and set fire to her living room curtains.She then proceeded to tell me how they didn't distibute them anymore and if i wanted a bag i'd have to buy one for about a quid!
"Bollox to that" said i,and promptly stormed out of the place leaving my goods on the belt.I know it's only a pound but what is wrong with this bloody country.A bit of furore in the press(not sure by who but, i'm guessing probably the joke of a paper that is the express)and the end of the world is nigh unless we stop using carrier bags.
There are a lot of bad things in this world,i'm guessing the carrier bag is pretty low down on the list.
F*****g JOKE COUNTRY!
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Not only do we get free carrier bags in (most) grogery stores in this fine country - we also get to stand there arms folded, whistling a merry tune while the checkout girl packs your bags for you & sends the local looney - (if he's not shoving trolleys around the car park) - out to load your car with aforementioned bags.
To be fair, it's not the 'bint's fault though.....!
A bit like porn mags in bushes?
LOL - Actually a couple of communities here in Vancouver have gone Plastic bag free - most people embraced it although I bet some of British ex-pats had a moan ;o)
I save my plastic bags for puting over eco facists heads and knoting em tight ------------------here to help.
Non biodegradeable ones should simply not be made any more - most end up in watercourses, and ultimately, the sea.
http://science.howstuffworks.com/great-pacific-garbage-patch.htm
Good work!
Any shop that makes a big issue of giving me bags always go on my blacklist of places to avoid (tk max are the worst offender by the way) thus they lose custom and in turn if this is repeated en masse go bankrupt costing more jobs and benefit and even more strain on the economy.
You are absolutely spot on Carly and I fully support you.
I'm with you on this one Carly - Why can't the supermarkets use the bio-degradable bags? Are their profits going to suffer?? Why is it that on branch of Marks charge for bags (Islington) yet the Moorgate branch don't?
We could probably do a lot better in the UK, but when you think about the crap being pumped into the atmosphere by the likes of China, is it going to make any difference what we do in this country?
A perfect example of the hypocrisy of the supermarkets is the Sainsburys in Charlton/North Greenwich, all those solar panels, wind turbines and grass on the roof.. and there's a petrol station in the car park! Next time, just drive your car straight in to the checkout and tell the two faced, holier-than-thou, mockney bastards, "There's my recyclable bag, just fill it up will yer."
Funniest thing is...... I had to got back up and check he hadn't actually started this thread! especially with the 'burn 'em' threat!
if it really was about the environment they'd go back to paper bags from recycled paper.
oh well done carly burn aswel, I also walked out of might have been TK MAX or some other cheapo shop because they were charging for bags, fuck that
The way it's gone over here we can all play Eco buzzword bingo. Renewable Sources. Sustainability. and many other family favourites. Word wanking by any other name and all the local authorities love a bit of it.
Charlton i hate you.
What absolute coddswollop at least here in Canada - There is still money returned on bottles, cans etc here in Canada and in BC alone, the company who administers this system has made a profit of approximately $5million dollars over the last couple of years.
Most of the plastic crap we generate is from un-neccesary packaging. There has never been a government with the balls to stop this ridiculous situation and this current lot have shied away from it too. They pass many stupid, unworkable laws in all areas of society and yet we are crying out for this one and they can't be arsed.
I wonder why?
What absolute coddswollop at least here in Canada - There is still money returned on bottles, cans etc here in Canada and in BC alone, the company who administers this system has made a profit of approximately $5million dollars over the last couple of years.[/quote]
Well I don't live in Canada so sadly comparisons are as you put it "absolute Codswallop" to me and I wasn't refering to companies making profit, I was refering to individuals who return their empty bottles for cash. The individual getting anything out of their deed is not thought of here in England because greedy companies are only interested in their profit margins. If they do it in Canada great!
Most of the plastic crap we generate is from un-neccesary packaging. There has never been a government with the balls to stop this ridiculous situation and this current lot have shied away from it too. They pass many stupid, unworkable laws in all areas of society and yet we are crying out for this one and they can't be arsed.
I wonder why?[/quote]
Absolutely right, the reason is money again. Penalise the people for the crap they let the big corporations gat away with.
I'll guess at Asda. Morrisons are getting worse.
On a different eco bent I wonder what the environmental impact of smoking is considered to be what with all the many delightful chemicals contained within the average ciggy? I'll bet the government shy from that to because of the fabulous profits to be made from the tobacco industry.