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... or, indeed, anybody.
Well if you want to be cynical you could look at it as a way of forcing the funding the charities that pick up the slack from government cuts.
I suppose that the extra funds will allow them to build their telemarketing teams to hound the old and vulnerable.
And the notion behind all this - that fewer plastic carrier bags is helpful to the environment - is, given the untold tons of pollution pumped into the world every single day by countries such as China, laughable.
Except it all feels like it's going to the kinds of things that used to be funded by local or national government.
Proceeds generated from the charge, excluding VAT and reasonable costs, will be donated to local projects through our Bags of Help community grant scheme. We will be working Groundwork, an expert organisation, to help us do this.In England, Scotland and Wales the proceeds generated from the sale of the bags will go to good causes, as set out by DEFRA (Department for Environment Food & Rural Affairs).In Northern Ireland the proceeds of the 5p levy are paid to the Department of the Environment (DOE). The money raised is used to deliver local projects to improve the environment.
Because it's an unnecessary, and I would argue counter-productive,
How is it counterproductive?
Because after 6 months, carrier bag consumption had fallen by 75-80% (depending on the supermarket in question). This would suggest that the production of carrier bags would fall by a similar percentage. So carrier bag manufacturing has counterproduced by 75% (approx).
I'm sorry, I don't understand. The whole point is to reduce the amount of carrier bags being produced and it's working.
I'm sure lots of us do that when the weather is bad, maybe we don't have quite so much room , but the idea of everything being dried in a tumble drier, wet from the washing machine, is very eco unfriendly.
I was sceptical about that one, but, on the whole, it seems to be working out fine.
Not for me it isn't, for much the same reasons that L. A. has just mentioned. The bin in my kitchen is one of that kind that attaches to the inside of a cupboard door, a plastic frame over which you hook the handles of a carrier bag so that the bag itself forms the bin. That's as good as useless now.And the notion behind all this - that fewer plastic carrier bags is helpful to the environment - is, given the untold tons of pollution pumped into the world every single day by countries such as China, laughable.
Why should we have to?
Why should our wildlife have to put up with the mess and danger that such items create?
Mr Cynical here!! I think something is going on, why is there a Ronald McDonald hospice attached to NHS hospitals, why does the NHS have its own lottery.Tories are better than Houdini, they are doing it right in front of us, NHS! nevermind the NHS! ...
See #30
That - and a very great deal else beside - could be sorted by having fewer people in the world. If impact on wildlife is a concern, the single biggest service you can perform is not to create yet more people who wilfully/consciously or not destroy their habitats through one means or another.Was impact on wildlife one of the reasons given for bringing in the charge?
They could tax children?
Is this true? Why would they increase the weight of the bags? If the 5p bags are actually reusable - maybe they should charge more? We have our own bags or the "bags for life" type.
