Originally Posted by ai731
Originally Posted by Lacelady
The Irish Govt. brought in a tax on plastic grocery bags a few years ago, to cut down on rubbish, so we hardly have enough to fill one of your lovely bags. We either buy long lasting bags for groceries now, and take them with us, or sometimes make our own. No one wants to pay the tax when they get to the check out. It has certainly made a difference to the generaly rubbish in towns and countryside though.
Our government hasn't quite caught up with yours yet, but several of the large grocery chains have started charging for each plastic bag you use, which has the same effect of encouraging people to bring their own re-usable bags, or at least use less bags!
Jan
I always used to recycle my supermarket bags to line my pedal bins, and now I have to buy them instead. Someone in the UK had bags made up in the far east, for shoppers to buy. The had ' I am not a plastic bag' written on them, and were a big hit. I made my own version:
This is the reverse.
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My version, rather than buy a bag imported from the far east.
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