M S to charge 5p for plastic bags
M S to charge 5p for plastic bags
Marks and Spencer are to start charging it's customers 5p for plastic bags - what an excellent idea! I can't wait till they try to introduce it into the UK from Ireland where it is being carried out on an experimental basis, because the second they try to introduce it into my local supermarket, I will use my own bags clearly marked SAINSBURY'S, and do you know what, there'll be absolutely nothing they'll be able to do about it. If enough people did it, perhaps they would get the message - what a cheek! Grrr! :-5 :-5 :-5
M S to charge 5p for plastic bags
Ha ha that place is a HUGE con as it is. I went in there looking at the food and OMG the prices are extortionate! I agree that stores should charge but M&S charge way too much already. I bought some Sour Cream and got outta there.
M S to charge 5p for plastic bags
crazygal;621847 wrote: Ha ha that place is a HUGE con as it is. I went in there looking at the food and OMG the prices are extortionate! I agree that stores should charge but M&S charge way too much already. I bought some Sour Cream and got outta there.
Sour cream, or sour grapes?:wah:
I never shop there either, for the same reason. I could have got £700.00 in Marks vouchers for a long service award. Instead I chose to pay £200.00 tax and took the money. The quality of the food is no different, so why pay a third more for absolutely nothing?
Sour cream, or sour grapes?:wah:
I never shop there either, for the same reason. I could have got £700.00 in Marks vouchers for a long service award. Instead I chose to pay £200.00 tax and took the money. The quality of the food is no different, so why pay a third more for absolutely nothing?
M S to charge 5p for plastic bags
I quite like some of the food that they sell, but I can not justify increasing my food bill by half again for the same amount of food :-5
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M S to charge 5p for plastic bags
weinbeck;621873 wrote: Sour cream, or sour grapes?:wah: I never shop there either, for the same reason. I could have got £700.00 in Marks vouchers for a long service award. Instead I chose to pay £200.00 tax and took the money. The quality of the food is no different, so why pay a third more for absolutely nothing?
True. I loved the food in hospital. When I was being discharged, the midwife asked me if I had any questions. I said yes, I would like the recipe for the fish pie, jokingly as it was so yum. She said that all of their food came from Marks and Sparks! That was why I was there to begin with to get this Fish Pie. They didn't have it though as it was one of their smaller stores, I was gutted.
I never shop there either, for the same reason. I could have got £700.00 in Marks vouchers for a long service award. Instead I chose to pay £200.00 tax and took the money. The quality of the food is no different, so why pay a third more for absolutely nothing?True. I loved the food in hospital. When I was being discharged, the midwife asked me if I had any questions. I said yes, I would like the recipe for the fish pie, jokingly as it was so yum. She said that all of their food came from Marks and Sparks! That was why I was there to begin with to get this Fish Pie. They didn't have it though as it was one of their smaller stores, I was gutted.
M S to charge 5p for plastic bags
crazygal;621886 wrote: True. I loved the food in hospital. When I was being discharged, the midwife asked me if I had any questions. I said yes, I would like the recipe for the fish pie, jokingly as it was so yum. She said that all of their food came from Marks and Sparks! That was why I was there to begin with to get this Fish Pie. They didn't have it though as it was one of their smaller stores, I was gutted.
People make jokes about hospital food, but when you consider just how many people have to be catered for, including vegetarians and others, then put into containers and transported all over the hospital, the end result isn't too bad, really. I had to have my tea in a beaker with a spout because of fractured ribs, and didn't really have much of an apitite, but with dedicated staffing gently trying to encourage you, after the first few mouthfuls, I actually enjoyed it.
People make jokes about hospital food, but when you consider just how many people have to be catered for, including vegetarians and others, then put into containers and transported all over the hospital, the end result isn't too bad, really. I had to have my tea in a beaker with a spout because of fractured ribs, and didn't really have much of an apitite, but with dedicated staffing gently trying to encourage you, after the first few mouthfuls, I actually enjoyed it.
M S to charge 5p for plastic bags
weinbeck;621909 wrote: People make jokes about hospital food, but when you consider just how many people have to be catered for, including vegetarians and others, then put into containers and transported all over the hospital, the end result isn't too bad, really. I had to have my tea in a beaker with a spout because of fractured ribs, and didn't really have much of an apitite, but with dedicated staffing gently trying to encourage you, after the first few mouthfuls, I actually enjoyed it.
The meals I had in there years ago were awful but these were done on the ward so weren't left for ages, they were really tasty.
The meals I had in there years ago were awful but these were done on the ward so weren't left for ages, they were really tasty.
M S to charge 5p for plastic bags
I loved the food in hospital, I'm the only person I know, that can put on weight when they're sick in hospital:-5 I love the puddings too, I never ever make them at home.
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Bill Sikes
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M S to charge 5p for plastic bags
weinbeck;621843 wrote: Marks and Spencer are to start charging it's customers 5p for plastic bags - what an excellent idea! I can't wait till they try to introduce it into the UK from Ireland where it is being carried out on an experimental basis
As far as I know it's compulsory for supermarkets in Ireland to charge for carrier bags, and also that it has vastly reduced the number used.
weinbeck;621843 wrote: because the second they try to introduce it into my local supermarket, I will use my own bags clearly marked SAINSBURY'S, and do you know what, there'll be absolutely nothing they'll be able to do about it. -5 -5 -5
Excellent! Then you'll be re-using bags, which is exactly the goal of this scheme!
As far as I know it's compulsory for supermarkets in Ireland to charge for carrier bags, and also that it has vastly reduced the number used.
weinbeck;621843 wrote: because the second they try to introduce it into my local supermarket, I will use my own bags clearly marked SAINSBURY'S, and do you know what, there'll be absolutely nothing they'll be able to do about it. -5 -5 -5
Excellent! Then you'll be re-using bags, which is exactly the goal of this scheme!
M S to charge 5p for plastic bags
The way in works in Ireland is that there is a levy of 15 cents on every plastic bag sold in the shops, and people are encouraged therefore to either get reusable ones, or at least stop throwing bags away as soon as they use them once. I think the scheme is a great success here, and has seriously reduced litter, in a country where the people are generally lazy and slobby, and don't care very about their environment and happily litter the place, so its necessary to enforce these things (I don't know about the UK, but Irish and British people are pretty similar on these types of things). So all in all, I would say get off the soap box and be practical about these things, as they are in everyone's long term interest, plastic bags are a bad idea generally, and we should wean ourselves off them, as they all end up in land fills (or worse) and pollute the place with PCBs for hundreds of years.
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M S to charge 5p for plastic bags
Galbally;621997 wrote: The way in works in Ireland is that there is a levy of 15 cents on every plastic bag sold in the shops, and people are encouraged therefore to either get reusable ones, or at least stop throwing bags away as soon as they use them once. I think the scheme is a great success here, and has seriously reduced litter, in a country where the people are generally lazy and slobby, and don't care very about their environment and happily litter the place, so its necessary to enforce these things (I don't know about the UK, but Irish and British people are pretty similar on these types of things). So all in all, I would say get off the soap box and be practical about these things, as they are in everyone's long term interest, plastic bags are a bad idea generally, and we should wean ourselves off them, as they all end up in land fills (or worse) and pollute the place with PCBs for hundreds of years.
There is a problem in here somewhere.
I use every carrier bag I get from the supermarket to bag up my rubbish to put down the chute. I know it goes straight into the landfill but the council raise Cain if the rubbish isn't bagged up so what am I to do?
Personally, I blame the distributors. Why put peppers on a plastic tray and then wrap them in cellophane so that we can put them in a bag to carry them home?
It might be quicker to push them through the checkout but the cost is higher, the inconvenience is higher and polution is higher. Hmm, the choice is less as well because I cannot pick the best peppers out - but that means the shop isn't left with the wrinkled fruit (which you cannot see through the packaging).
I respectfully suggest that the problem lies, not with the biodegradable carrier bags we carry our good home in but with the excessive, non-biodegradable packaging we fill the bags with.
There is a problem in here somewhere.
I use every carrier bag I get from the supermarket to bag up my rubbish to put down the chute. I know it goes straight into the landfill but the council raise Cain if the rubbish isn't bagged up so what am I to do?
Personally, I blame the distributors. Why put peppers on a plastic tray and then wrap them in cellophane so that we can put them in a bag to carry them home?
It might be quicker to push them through the checkout but the cost is higher, the inconvenience is higher and polution is higher. Hmm, the choice is less as well because I cannot pick the best peppers out - but that means the shop isn't left with the wrinkled fruit (which you cannot see through the packaging).
I respectfully suggest that the problem lies, not with the biodegradable carrier bags we carry our good home in but with the excessive, non-biodegradable packaging we fill the bags with.
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M S to charge 5p for plastic bags
Plastic bags are collected here in the weekly blue box programme, but I've heard that they are shipped off to recycling facilities in India and China.
Really stupid idea to use a bag for a trip of maybe a couple of kilometres and ten minutes time from the store to your home, then either toss it in the garbage, or send it to the other side of the planet. We've all done it, but we must change our habits.
San Francisco banned plastic bags a couple of months ago. I found this statement from the CBC article very interesting :
The city legislator who introduced the bill, Ross Mirkarimi, said that up to 200 million plastic bags are used each year in the city of roughly 740,000 people.
It's estimated a traditional plastic bag takes 1,000 years to dissolve.
http://www.cbc.ca/consumer/story/2007/0 ... ml?ref=rss
Really stupid idea to use a bag for a trip of maybe a couple of kilometres and ten minutes time from the store to your home, then either toss it in the garbage, or send it to the other side of the planet. We've all done it, but we must change our habits.
San Francisco banned plastic bags a couple of months ago. I found this statement from the CBC article very interesting :
The city legislator who introduced the bill, Ross Mirkarimi, said that up to 200 million plastic bags are used each year in the city of roughly 740,000 people.
It's estimated a traditional plastic bag takes 1,000 years to dissolve.
http://www.cbc.ca/consumer/story/2007/0 ... ml?ref=rss